Word: suleymanoglu
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...live in dorms, meet new friends and learn about the world. And, in doing so, they teach us about the four other Olympic qualities that the fairy-tale Olympian mythically has to conquer: excellence (in the heroic third-straight gold of 4-ft. 11-in. Turkish weight lifter Naim Suleymanoglu); integrity (in the radiant face of Jonathan Edwards, the British triple jumper who said he was thrilled to get silver and made you believe it); sportsmanship (in the tears of American Lindsay Davenport after she beat her "very best friend," Mary Joe Fernandez, in the women's tennis semifinals...
...American Mark Henry might be the heaviest man at the Games. He is looking to improve his 10th-place finish of 1992. In the 141-lb. category, Turkey's Naim Suleymanoglu, the Pocket Hercules, seeks his third straight gold medal...
...other compact athletes like Grablev walked onto the stage of Seoul's Olympic weight-lifting gymnasium to set world and Olympic records in the five categories. Nearly all these mighty men were from Bulgaria, long a fearsome power in the sport. The most notable exception was Turkey's Naim Suleymanoglu, 21, the "Pocket Hercules," who at 4 ft. 11 in. set three world records in the 132-lb. class and gave his country its first gold medal since 1968. But Suleymanoglu was born in Bulgaria, of Turkish parents, and trained there until his 1986 defection to Turkey...
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