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...Ernest and Regina Twigg of Langhorne, Pa., the death of their nine-year- old Arlena after heart surgery last month was heartbreaking -- on top of anguish that began after presurgery tests of Arlena's blood revealed she was Type B positive. The Twiggs both have Type O blood, which meant that Arlena probably had not been their natural child...
Freckled redhead Connie Carpenter-Phinney, 27, an Olympic speedskater in 1972 who rowed for the University of California at Berkeley and is built on the order of an oar, joined Teammate Rebecca Twigg, 21, in the lead pack?a six-pack?bearing down on the finish after more than two hours of the first women's road test in the history of the Games. Then the U.S. pair broke out on the wings, and screeched practically side by side across the line. Even before coasting to a stop, they came together in a sweet embrace. After 49.2 miles, Carpenter-Phinney...
...road race was scheduled for the Olympics, Carpenter returned to training for what she called "the one last race of my life." Last week, exhausted and just meters from the end, she lunged her bike, like a kid jumping a curb, to victory only inches ahead of Teammate Rebecca Twigg. With that, Carpenter entered the record books as the first woman in history to win an Olympic cycling event and the first American to be awarded gold in the sport (the single previous U.S. medal: a bronze...
Americans winning bicycle races? That's a little like saying "movie deal" and "sincerity" in the same sentence. Not only did Carpenter-Phinney (she married ten months ago) and Silver Medalist Twigg, 21, triumph in their 79.2-km (49.2-mile) road race, but an iconoclastic team of 20 U.S. men coasted off with three golds, two silvers and a bronze in other events. Along the way, some of the favorites had trouble, and a handful of brash newcomers gained prominence. Said Carpenter-Phinney: "It will take a while to put it all into perspective...
...Betsy Twigg...