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...track they stopped and lighted on one knee with Lewis in the middle banding Kirk Baptiste and Thomas Jefferson in his long arms. Afterward again the prepared statement: "It was great to jog around holding the flag with two other guys and not just by myself." Now only the relay separated him from Owens, and Lewis appeared ready to go all out. "I have three guys that are unparalleled in front of me." Though early-round understudies are permissible in the relay, he staffed every round. "If anyone drops the baton," Tellez said, "he wants...
...Santa Monica apartment of his manager, Joe Douglas, to watch the swimming on television. When Bruce Hayes, an unheralded freestyler from UCLA, held off the final surge of West Germany's Michael Gross to give the U.S. the gold in the men's 4 X 200 freestyle relay, Lewis "got very excited, probably more excited than I will for the 100 meters. I was turning somersaults. I was jumping and screaming. I wasn't resting then. I was emotionally involved. But when it was all over I was resting again...
Gross went on to win medals-two gold and two silver. One of the silvers, for the 4-by-200-meter relay, missed being gold by the diameter of the medallion. Earlier that day Gross had qualified for the 100-meter butterfly, then won the final with a world record of 53:08. The U.S. 4-by-200-meter relay team, knowing Gross awaited them at the anchor leg, went at their business quickly. Six other teams were in the water, but not really in the race...
This was the meet's highest drama, although U.S. men's relay teams also won their remaining races in world-record times. Swimmers continued to file in, full of resolve or resignation, and to fill the panic time before their races by ritualistically kneeling to splash water on their faces, and then slowly peeling off many layers of sweat clothes. Most of the men were powerfully built and conventionally handsome, and most of the women were spectacularly graceful. A brass band played busily for their entrances and exits, and the sun shone on them through a sky that...
...with 25 meters to go. "Oh no, here she comes," thought Johnson. As she admitted later, "I didn't have anything left." Not true; she had enough to win the silver, which contrasted nicely with the gold she had won two days before in the 400-meter freestyle relay. Properly viewed, however, her 50-meter charge was a wait-till-next-year statement. Johnson will be stronger next year, maybe bigger. Wait till then. And just wait, the swim buff thinks, till 1988! -ByJohnSkow. Reported by Melissa Ludtke/Los Angeles