Word: olympicsized
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So it was fitting that Strug's moment of Olympic glory was the storybook climax to one of the most brilliantly managed team efforts in U.S. Olympics history. She played through pain, convinced that she had to for the team, risking a worse injury and jeopardizing her own chances for...
One change for '96 was that Karolyi, head coach of the '92 team, was replaced by a duo: his wife Martha and Tracy. They were an effective team--Martha Karolyi the experienced technician, Tracy the supportive den mother. The group they assembled for the Olympics was older and more mature...
Amy Van Dyken went shopping a few weeks ago and ran into some old high school classmates. The very girls, it happened, who once tried to keep her off the school's relay swim team by complaining to the coach, throwing her clothes in the pool and spitting in her...
The bitterness of rejection, and the struggle to overcome a crippling affliction, forged a champion. "She decided to go faster and faster," her mother recalled last week. So fast that Van Dyken, now a 6-ft. 150-lb. sprinter, rocketed her way to four gold medals, an unprecedented haul for...
Is this the Olympics or One Life to Live? The story of Vitali took almost as much time to tell as Vitali took to perform. While the soap opera content of the Games has been growing ever since ABC's Roone Arledge invented "Up Close and Personal" for the 1972...