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...Strug nailing her landing after her Yurchenko 1 1/2, then maintaining her balance on one foot as she pivoted in deference to the two tables of judges. With that, the 87-lb. 18-year-old shoved aside Shaquille O'Neal, Alexander Karelin, Billy Payne and all the big, bad Olympians. There were other heroes, to be sure, in the first eight days of the 16-day competition, but none as compelling as the Seven Sisters of U.S. gymnastics (see page 42). In this ghost town on Saturday, one could only wish that they might magically reappear to make...
Higher was also the objective of the many stargazers who attended the first week's events and collected celebrities like pins: Simpson, David Hasselhoff, Bruce and Demi, Arnold, Ali, Chelsea--who, bless her heart, went to everything--and her parents. Royalty mixed with Olympian and, in the case of Kuwaiti swimmer S.A.B.S. Sultan Alotaibi, who finished 37th out of 37 in the 200-m individual medley, were one and the same. Perhaps the most interesting encounter occurred at the Olympic Village, when U.S. team handball circle runner Dave DeGraaf was followed into the lavatory by men in suits. "Mr. President...
...Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games officials and security personnel have been briefed by members of the Immigration and Naturalization Service on what to do in case a Cuban, a North Korean or an Iraqi asks for temporary asylum. (Basically, they were instructed to isolate and protect the Olympian until an ins representative arrives on the scene.) And at the boxing venue on the Georgia Tech campus, officials were fully expecting the defection of one or more of the Cuban boxers, who could still win as many as five gold medals despite the flights of bantamweight Casamayor and light heavyweight...
...there are defections in Atlanta, they will not involve midnight scrambles over barbed wire or high-speed chases. They will, in fact, probably be like the first Olympian defection, at the 1948 Games in London, when Marie Provaznikova, leader of the Czech women's contingent, simply refused to return to Czechoslovakia. The drama will be in the number of Cubans or the names. Is it possible that Felix Savon, the great heavyweight boxer, or a flame-throwing pitcher named Omar Luis or even Linares might bolt before receiving his gold medal? "Anything is possible," says El Gordo. "Something will happen...
...Harvard's way of doing things is based on the Olympian view of when you call people they will come and life's just more complicated now," says Professor of Astronomy Robert P. Kirchner '70, chair of the Astronomy Department...