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...that the popular Li Jing -- China's premier gymnast -- is a stuffed shirt. "Gymnasts only look big because TV screens are so small," he says with a wink. Among his teammates, he's the life of the party. "Li Jing is always a joker," says his coach Zhang Jian. "Except, of course, during competition, when it counts...
Only yesterday, it seems, he was entrenched as the world's premier sprinter and jumper. After four Olympic gold medals in 1984 and two in '88, F. Carleton Lewis (he strongly prefers Carl) last August recorded an astonishing 100-m world record. But almost simultaneously, the end of the Lewis era began to be visible...
...Kirkland resident, one of the premier collegiate throwers in the nation, has rarely disappointed...
Certainly, if anyone is an position to claim a championship his weekend, it is Harvard. The team boasts the premier offensive and defensive units in the country, and despite a momentary lapse down in Baltimore. Md. (an overtime loss to Loyola), it has run rough-shod over every opponent its faced...
...former premier, who is establishing afoundation in his native country, has also visitedthe Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter presidentiallibraries during his trip in the U.S. and will bevisiting the John F. Kennedy presidential libraryin Boston Friday morning...