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...really fresh and really anxious," she says of her preparations for upcoming confrontations with a strong Soviet, Tatyana Samolenko, and Rumanian Paula Ivan. There will be no rematch with South Africa-born Budd. Slaney's Olympic nemesis was tastelessly hounded into retirement earlier this year by foes of apartheid. Slaney recently has been on antibiotics for an unspecified illness, but her once fierce confidence has returned, this time tempered with the realization that dreams are oh so fragile. "Cross my fingers," she has been saying often these pre-Olympic days. "Knock on wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Track Shorts: End for the Slaney Jinx? | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

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