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...badgered the coach, the guidance counselor and the principal. "Why don't you let her do something else?" asked Jose Miranda, whose daughter Patricia wrestled on the high school boys' team in Saratoga, Calif. "How about gymnastics? Or volleyball?" He begged her to give it up, even threatened to sue the school to get her off the mat. She wouldn't relent. Jose, a Brazilian-born family doctor, wanted his daughter to concentrate on school; he also feared for her safety. And for him, there was the obvious question. "Why would a woman want to wrestle?" he asked her. "That...
PATRICIA MIRANDA TELA O'DONNELL AGES 25 (Miranda), 22 (O'Donnell) HOMETOWNS Saratoga, Calif. (Miranda); Homer, Alaska (O'Donnell) EVENT Women's wrestling THE DRAMA The event is making its Olympic debut--a victory in itself. Miranda's dad begged her not to wrestle. Sorry, Pop, the kid's good. THE COMPETITION Two Japanese sisters, Chiharu and Kaori Icho, are medal favorites...
Hometown: Saratoga Springs...
...many people have met their “sole” mates on the contra circuit. One of these lucky men describes his whirlwind romance in the context of folk dance: “We knew each other through local events and then took a Lindy workshop up in Saratoga Springs in February of ’99. Something just clicked and three years later we were married...
...more and more their resolve will continue to deteriorate. The citizens of Iraq will become increasingly impatient and more attacks on our troops will be made. As more of our troops die in Iraq, America's support for the war by November will be almost non-existent. Dale Himelrick Saratoga Springs...