Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Could the celebration have been richer if the competition had been better? America's Olympics closed with the usual expressions of hope, as the five-ring flag was passed from Los Angeles to another neutral location, Seoul, Korea, where doom is expected again in four years, and the athletes will probably come through once more. The XXIII Olympiad was handsome and bright, not completely smog-free but, as British Runner Steve Cram said, "You should see it where I live," just outside Newcastle. Bringing a world of people to Los Angeles did seem a little like fetching coals...
...week marked by a combination of athletic heroics within the ring and judgmental pusillanimity without. The twelve-man U.S. team, spared by the Soviet-led boycott from facing their toughest competitors, the Cubans and the Soviets, coolly advanced through the field, mowing down Ugandans, Tongans, South Koreans, Mexicans and Italians along the way. Only three U.S. fighters lost a bout...
There was Light Flyweight Paul Gonzales, 20, for example, 106 Ibs. of controlled barrio macho with an elegant command of the ring. Favoring an injured right arm, Gonzales disposed of his Venezuelan opponent in the semifinals by scoring repeatedly with a classic left jab. He won his final in a walkover when his opponent, Salvatore Todisco of Italy, turned out to have broken a thumb in a previous bout. Ten years ago, Gonzales was running with the violent gangs of predominantly Hispanic East Los Angeles. Taken in hand by Sympathetic Cop Al Stankie, Gonzales emerged as a home-town hero...
...During the competition, Breland, McCrory and Tate left the team's training site, supervised by U.S. Coach Pat Nappi, to work with Emanuel Steward, their private tutor from Detroit's Kronk Gym, home to pros like Thomas Hearns. Indeed, the aura of proto-professionalism hung over the ring throughout the week. Fighters met the press in postfight interviews attended by their agents. Instead of boasting of their knockout prowess, they projected their income for 1987; rather than discussing Olympic strategy, they talked about how soon a pro title bout could be arranged. And hovering at ringside were boxing...
...hated former wife, the mother of his two children. "Take her off somewhere and break her neck," he told a prospective hitman, who went to the authorities. Wilson specified that he wanted Barbara Wilson's corpse stripped of her jewelry, especially her big diamond ring. "It's my good-luck piece," he said. "I want it back." Asked what he would pay for the job of killing her, he replied, "She's worth...