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...Mary T. Meagher, a U.S. swimmer, the atmosphere is, simply, beautiful. For track stars, the Olympics may be a means, but for swimmers it is everything. They come to the Games prepared to laugh. "Let this, go out nationwide," proclaims Steve Lundquist. "I need a job. I'm keeping my ears open, and they certainly are big enough." Lundquist, 23, and Meagher, 19, are two of the sport's grizzled journeymen. She was a record holder at age five, a world champion by 14. Then, in 1980, what should have been Meagher's Olympics went on without...
...fair-to-exciting swimmer. I guess I put as much energy into swimming at that age [ten] as I ever did into track and field. I wanted to swim the English Channel. I told my father: I want to know something about this English Channel. Why are these people swimming it? How does one swim with, you know, the sharks? How do swimmers go to the bathroom? What happens in the night? And then I learned about the Olympic Games. And I said: Oh, wow. I'd like to do that...
...most passionate competitor on the entire team may be a swimmer, Rick Carey, 21, the University of Texas junior, academic all-American, computer whiz and sore loser. "Rick not only hates to lose, he hates to go slow," says Coach John Collins of the Badger Swim Club in Larchmont, N. Y. "It's like he has a devil over his shoulder who drives him to go fast." Carey seems to have put behind him his notorious goggle-throwing days. But then, he has not had much occasion for temper lately. He is the world-record holder in both...
This blond and blue-eyed muscular young man says that he made up his mind to be an Olympian when he was seven, competing first as a swimmer, then moving to the bewitching variety of the pentathlon at 14. He visited the San Antonio training center that year, and returned summers during high school and his 4½ years at the University of Pennsylvania (where, while putting himself through a ferocious training regime, he also studied economics, political science and financial management). His extraordinary motivation is an asset in a sport whose audiences generally consist of coaches...
...International Games for the Disabled. He watched as more than 1,700 participants from 45 nations paraded past, many in wheelchairs, others on crutches. Among them were delegations from Poland, Hungary and East Germany, all countries that are boycotting the Summer Games. Reagan passed a flaming Olympic torch to Swimmer Jan Wilson, 28, an amputee from Winston-Salem, N.C., and said, "You are proving that a disability doesn't have to stand in the way of a full and active life...