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Harvard's top Olympic hopeful this year is track and field sprinter Meredith Rainey '90, who competes for the United States and is among the favorites in the 800-meter...
Finishing anywhere but first would have been a disappointment for sprinter Bonnie Blair, who captivated audiences in 1988 with her killer starts and unabashed tears of joy on the medal stand after her 500-m victory. After that she struggled and ranked only fifth overall at last year's world championships. "I just didn't feel comfortable on my skates," Blair said. By Albertville, she had regained form and confidence, though, and seemed once again invulnerable...
...legions of elite athletes like Simpson, California remains the land of upward mobility. The state has produced legions of homegrown sports stars (sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner, high diver Greg Louganis, slugger Darryl Strawberry) and has polished the skills of legions more who moved to California to train (swimmer Janet Evans, decathlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee, volleyball player Karch Kiraly). From title-winning ice skaters (Debi Thomas) to record-setting long jumpers (Mike Powell), from Olympic champion swimmers (Matt Biondi) to gold-medal skiers (Bill Johnson), California is the American sports machine. Nearly 30% of the U.S. athletes at the 1988 Summer...
...seems keyed up, and, he says, one reason he decided to come back was that "I missed the feeling of being nervous, of having to go out there and perform." At week's end, in a $30,000 match race in the 50-m fly, he lost to freestyle sprinter Tom Jager at Mission Viejo, Calif...
...captain Greg Tull is now the fastest freestyle sprinter in Harvard history at 20.48 in the 50-yd. and 44.74 in the 100-yd freestyle. Still, Tull's times at these distances weren't the quickest of the day. Ty Nelson of Princeton edged Tull in the 50 by 12 seconds and Harvard's Ed Wagner swam a blistering 44.56 in the anchor leg of the 400-yd. medley relay...