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...minute when Petruccelli beat Gebre-Medhin and shot the ball towards the net, but Dartmouth freshman back Michael Vidmar cleared it off the line just before it went...
Kicking Game: Brown's big toe is Stephan Lins, a soccer player who grew up in Germany. John Vidmar is the Bruins' punter. He averages 31.6 yards per punt with a long of 50 yards...
...master technician of the squad, an Olympian since 1976 and one of two American men since 1932 to win an individual gold medal in a world championship (the other: Kurt Thomas), was sent to the floor second and third to "make base" for the more flamboyant routines of Vidmar and Mitch Gaylord. Similarly, James Hartung, 24, and Scott Johnson, 23, dutifully rolled out in the early rounds, though they knew that in doing so, they gave up their hopes for individual medals. Says Gaylord: "In every other meet I've competed in, the egos come out when the coach...
...side, Peter Vidmar missed the same distinction by an achingly narrow margin, falling short of the gold in the all-around by a mere .025 point. "Twenty-five one-thousandths of a point," says Vidmar. "Maybe I wish the difference would have been two-tenths or three-tenths. Now I could say, 'If I didn't take a step here, if I didn't take a step there.' " In fact, it was precisely two steps that cost him the gold. In the floor exercise, he was twice forced to take a small step...
...beat Vidmar was Japan's Koji Gushiken, who won the gold with a performance as gritty as it was fine. At 27, he had come to Los Angeles to cap his career, but his chances seemed fatally damaged when he fell from the pommel horse during the second day of competition and scored 9.45. But after that debacle he said, "I did not come here to fail." And so he did not. Gushiken is a gymnast of another generation, noted less for the daring supertrick than for the traditional virtues of technical mastery and elegant style. He relentlessly kept...