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...world record in the 400 individual medley, with Dave Wharton of the U.S. a solid second. Britain's Adrian Moorhouse was favored to win the 100-meter breaststroke, and did. Big Matt Biondi finally won his first gold by anchoring the U.S. 4 X 200-meter freestyle relay team to a world-record win in the best race of the week, roaring up from behind to beat Steffen Zesner of East Germany with the fastest 200-meter leg ever swum, as teammates Troy Dalbey, Matt Cetlinski and Doug Gjertsen bayed to the rafters at poolside. But before that, he finished...
...wildest races of the week were the women's 400 free and the men's 4 X 200 freestyle relay. The first belonged to Janet Evans, teasingly called "Princess" by the swim-team staff because of her occasionally imperious ways. She developed a crick in her neck at training camp in Hawaii, doubtless, it was said, because of a pea under her mattress. In Seoul, she complained, the team had to walk (she pronounced the unfamiliar word with distaste) to practice. Biondi said, trying to sound as if he believed it, that Evans owes her success to her "little skinny...
...wistfully of home (she will be a senior at El Dorado High School in Placentia, Calif.), Biondi flogged himself for mishandling the finish of the 100 fly and letting Nesty steal the gold. His scorched pride drove him through his winning anchor leg of the 4 X 200-meter relay. He speculated wryly that the loss might even give him the motivation to make the national water-polo team (he was a four-time All-American at Berkeley), stay with it and compete at Barcelona in 1992. In any case, the racing career of this big, likable man was blazing...
...drop expedition in Seoul's Itaewon market district. One old hero, the great Michael Gross of West Germany, seemed to have come to earth. Until the meet's last days, the lanky "Albatross," who dominated the '84 games, had managed only a bronze in the 4 X 200 relay. Now, one more time, he set out to dominate the field in his specialty, the 200-meter butterfly. As always, he led easily for the first 150 meters. He faded in the last 50 -- this was new -- but he managed to scratch...
...giant Tracking and Data Relay Satellite is a $100-million twin of the craft that was destroyed aboard Challenger...