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...will come close. But she needs another 10 ft. in the javelin to beat Jane Frederick's American heptathlon record of 6,803 points. She hoists her last throw too high. It noses up, catches air and falls short. There is no time to brood; she has an 800-meter run to get through. Less than an hour later, tiring, she squeezes out a win in this last competition--a gaudy seven victories out of seven events. And though her point total of 6,718 leaves her 85 short of Frederick's mark, the victory can be read...
...minutes away is the nattily named Natatorium, where a rare sight awaits. The great Greg Louganis, a double gold medalist at Los Angeles, completely butchers a couple of dives in the 10-meter platform prelims. He has explained, in his bashful, self-effacing way, that he is not really training. Headshaking here; sad to see a fine athlete on the downward slide. Uh-huh. But when the diving is finished a couple of days later, guess which bashful, self-effacing phenomenon has another two golds? The real surprise is that Michele Mitchell also wins two. She won the silver last...
...elegant, almost preordained fashion, he simply goes out and does it. In the weeks before this summer's highly touted Dream Mile at Bislett Stadium in Oslo, Cram, 24, was clearly on a roll. On July 16 in Nice, France, he had smashed the world 1,500-meter mark by 1.10 sec. with a beautifully structured performance in 3:29.67. So, coming into Oslo with the track world now focused on his run at Olympic Champion Sebastian Coe's four-year-old mile record of 3:47.33, everything felt just right...
First, Norway's Ingrid Kristiansen rode the roar of the hometown aficionados to a 10,000-meter time of 30:59.42, a vast 14.36 sec. better than the old record. Next, Morocco's Said Aouita just out-dueled the U.S.'s Sydney Maree, shaving .01 sec. off the 5,000-meter record with his 13:00.40. Finally, Cram and Coe, 28, came onstage with eleven others for the classic confrontation to determine who would reign among the world's milers. Many experts, including Cram in his quiet, pleasant way, felt that the outcome was virtually certain. One possible question...
...higher than the value of the goods. He travels to China on trips every six weeks, bumping shoulders with buyers from national homeware chains, multinational merchandisers and a multitude of hungry importers. "As a wholesaler I have to give my guys value," he says, surrounded by faux entombed warriors, meter-high bird cages and multi-colored plastic pots. "There's a constant pressure on me to find goods that they can sell for a 100% margin. Chinese labor is starting to become too expensive in this industry. You'll find they will soon move up the scale into more high...