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...weeks after Claudia Losch of West Germany won a 1984 Olympic gold medal with a shot put of 67 ft. 2 1/4 in., Natalia Lisovskaya took that event at the Soviet bloc's boycott-inspired Friendship Games with a throw almost 5 ft. longer. Barred by politics in 1984 from a chance at world sport's most enduring honor, Lisovskaya began training at Moscow's Brothers Znamensky Sports School for Seoul...
...plaque with a style drawn more from Clausewitz than Connolly or Court. She dropped only two sets in the course of her conquest. In the first act, the Australian Open in January, she sent Evert down under 6-1, 7-6. In Paris in June, she pulverized Soviet Natalia Zvereva 6-0, 6-0, the only double bagel ever in a French Open singles final and the first in a grand-slam final since 1911. The walkover took all of 32 minutes on the soft, molasses-slow red clay. During the award ceremony, when the centurion had metamorphosed back into...
...gymnastics, innovation and injury sometimes go together. That is the case with a new move that most women will be performing in Seoul. At the 1983 world championships in Budapest, Soviet Natalia Yurchenko opened the new era when she successfully debuted the round-off vault, now called the Yurchenko. The easily recognized approach entails a cartwheel onto the springboard in front of the vaulting horse, followed by a launch backward onto the horse...
...dancing competition earlier in the week was a more predictable affair. As expected, the Soviets dominated, with three-time World Champions Natalia Bestemianova and Andrei Bukin claiming the gold. "B and B," as they are known, earned three perfect 6.0s for artistic merit from the panel of nine judges, delivering a theatrical long program that depicted the taming of a wild shrew. Heavily rouged and clad in garish black-and-gold costumes, the pair executed moves that were unarguably polished but at times bordered on the vulgar, particularly when Bestemianova repeatedly spread her legs and squatted...
Though no Torvill and Dean, Soviet Dancers Natalia Bestemianova and Andrei Bukin should win in a waltz...