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...woman skier. Actually, the entire women's team appears less robust than its regimen. At various boot camps from Hawaii to New Zealand, karate and pro football have been mixed into the exercises (Green Bay Packer Del Rodgers was a drill instructor). With the exception of three-time Olympian Cindy Nelson, a bronze-medal winner in 1976, they are extraordinarily fit. Nelson crashed a gate at Val d'Isere, France, last month and tore the ligaments in a knee. She returned to the U.S. immediately and has been working furiously to recover...
Koch stresses mind over medals and effort over interviews. Perhaps that is the inevitable legacy of all those years when the U.S. finished far out of the running, unnoticed and unremarked. His goal: to be out on the course alone, skis singing in the tracks and his true Olympian's heart pumping anonymously, gloriously to its limit. Says he: "I get my happiness, my life, from the act of striving for excellence...
...competition in dismay for 1,502 years. Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a French idealist whose practical side was underrated, revived the Olympics in 1896 in the name of international amity but with a plea for fiscal sanity that is near to the heart of Peter Ueberroth, 46, the Olympian Cash McCall. For, in a way, this San Fernando Valley businessman-sportsman is starting the Games all over again too. "They must be kept more purely athletic," as the baron said, "more dignified, more discreet and more in accordance with the classic artistic requirements. The Games must be more intimate...
...economy. The L.A.O.O.C. will have generated another billion in commerce and, while accepting no charity, will have promoted millions for youth organizations. If the most joyful ambition of the Games is realized, a 10,000-man-woman-and-child relay team of torchbearers will connect the country?from 1912 Olympian Abel Kiviat to retired Baseball Star Johnny Bench to the ordinary jogger in the street?and along the way $30 million could be the gain for youth...
...tournament (not to mention the most unlikely participant in the sport) was 7-ft. Akeem ("the Dream") Olajuwon, 20, a converted soccer goalie discovered in Lagos, Nigeria, by a U.S. State Department worker acquainted with Houston Coach Guy Lewis. Olajuwon can run like Alberto Juantorena, the Cuban Olympian, and is a precocious protege of former Houston Rockets Center Moses Malone, now with Philadelphia. "What is the most important thing Moses has taught you?" Olajuwon was asked. "Don't sign anything," he answered...