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...Doehring won unexpected gold and silver in the shot put. And though America's women swimmers were surprised by the Chinese, who seemed to be picking up where the East Germans left off, the U.S. generally did well in the water. In 1988 American swimmers won 18 medals in Seoul; in Barcelona they splashed to 27. At week's end the Americans stood just behind the Unified Team in medals...
...Olympic "Up Close and Personal" focus in the last decade has mutated into a monster. By the end of the women's gymnastics competition, for instance, there must have been at least 10 references to svetlana Boginskaya's "personal tragedy"--her coach's suicide after the 1988 games in Seoul...
...images will have the same sharp quality as those scanned on our premises and will be ready for use in the magazine. Notes McVea: "These innovations actually extend our deadlines. Four years ago, it took up to five hours to process and send a single image from the Seoul Olympics. With this technology, all that work takes just 35 minutes...
...American women's real secret formula is what it has always been: talent cultivated through hard work. Evans, for example, looked barely pubescent in Seoul. Her small, flat body, coupled with the startling turnover rate of her stroke, yielded textbook efficiency underwater. Now 20 and womanly, 2 in. taller and 15 lbs. heavier, she says, "I really have to be aware of getting my speed up, so I train even longer." Evans probably ranks as the safest bet for gold on this gilded squad. She is returning in the 400-m and 800-m freestyle, not having lost at either...
...standoff, is a favorite at all the freestyle distances Evans isn't swimming -- the 50 m, 100 m and 200 m -- and will likely join freestyle and medley relays. She could come close to the tally of her heroine, Kristin Otto of East Germany, whose six gold medals at Seoul are a record for a woman in any sport. Thompson's awe at that feat is tinged with healthy skepticism and a yen for battle. "To take over from the East Germans would be the ultimate revenge," she says. "To do, without drugs, what they did with drugs would...