Word: sport
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...major at Morehouse College in Atlanta, he tried an office job several years ago, designing weapons systems for the Navy, and lasted about six months. He says, "I look at track from an artistic as well as a business point of view. It's more than just a sport. It's my life." Though he should tear through the Olympics, Moses feels the competition gaining. "Now when I run, people stop and tune in on the race. There's more pressure on me, of course. I have something to lose." But he is a star...
...Olympic broadcasting team. Eleven years after making his first world mark at 19, the lovable loudmouth in the Mickey Mouse shirt flopped backward over a 7-ft. 8-in. bar last month at the trials and landed somewhere in his own past, right back in the thick of the sport...
...such complete esteem that his Olympics may resemble a coronation more than a contest. The three-time world champion, who won a silver medal at Montreal, is considered a lock on the 3-meter springboard and merely the favorite on the 10-meter platform. His position in the sport is so proprietary that when a Soviet diver was fatally injured attempting a reverse 3½ tuck at a meet last summer, Louganis felt personally responsible for "pushing people to do these dives." It is not a precarious dive to Louganis, a sensitive introvert whose fear of heights relents only "when...
...glad when we eliminate the word amateur from this sport," says Joe Douglas, coach of the Santa Monica Track Club and business manager for Superstar Carl Lewis. "It's a sham. If there were true amateurism in track and field, most of the athletes couldn't compete." Douglas should know. Not only can a track-and-field star like his client make as much as $1 million a year from his sport and still be eligible to compete as an "amateur," it is also possible for top-flight athletes known mostly within the sport to make perhaps...
...applause is not the kind the Celtics get, however. The U.S. is accustomed to winning the archery gold-John Williams, who coaches the U.S. team, won in 1972-but the fact is that archery is a "that's nice" sport. The shooters look nice in their dress whites, and the medals are nice, but no one gets excited. The result, says McKinney, a small lean man, is that "we're a poor sport." The U.S.O.C. contributes $750 or so a year to each of its top archers, but bows are expensive high-tech affairs with elaborate stabilizers...