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...dive of death is a reverse 3-1/2 somersault in the tuck position. At the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, it had a degree of difficulty of 3.4, compounded by 2-the number of divers who had died attempting it. But the Dive of Death is what Greg Louganis needed to win the gold medal in the 10-m platform competition, his second of the Games. He nailed it, straight in, no splash...
...diver anyone has ever seen might not have been allowed to compete. Appearing with Barbara Walters on abc's 20/20 last Friday in conjunction with the publication this week of his autobiography, Breaking the Surface (Random House; $23), Louganis revealed that he was hiv-positive when he competed in Seoul and that he now has AIDS. Imagine the uproar then-it was cacophonous enough last week-over the cut Louganis received when he hit his head on the springboard during the preliminaries. Carrying his teddy bear with a matching bandage to and from the pool might not have played quite...
...years before Seoul, though, were troubled ones for Louganis. He became involved with an abusive lover who then became his business manager and stripped him of his self-respect-as well as thousands of dollars. In the book Louganis refers to him only as Tom, but in a lawsuit filed in 1989, after Louganis had been stalked and threatened with blackmail by his former lover, the man was identified as Jim Babbitt. By this time Babbitt already had AIDS, and Louganis had been tested. "Greg told me he had tested positive early in '88," O'Brien recalls. "I was devastated...
...initial reaction was shock and sympathy when legendary Olympic diving champion Greg Louganis yesterday announced to the world that he has AIDS. Louganis is the only male diver to sweep the diving gold in consecutive Olympics - and managed to do so the second time, during the 1988 Seoul Games, despite gashing his head badly on a diving board. But TIME sportswriter Steve Wulf says there is a hanging question: "Why did he wait so long to tell people?" -- especially since Louganis tested HIV positive shortly before the Seoul Games. One possible explanation: Louganis' book, which touches on the subject, goes...
...cultural and intellectual wellspring. The challenge is to save it from its own creative destruction. In the frenzy to modernize the capital of what Vietnam's leaders hope will be Asia's next economic ``tiger,'' Hanoi is beginning to take on the more disturbing qualities of Bangkok, Taipei or Seoul. Historic shop houses and old temples are being pulled down to make way for chrome-and-glass hotels and offices--monuments to raw capitalism. Where the leafy streets were once blessedly quiet, they now reverberate with the rumble of bulldozers and the honking of car horns. Bicycles and pedicabs, once...