Word: winner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Zealanders, who sailed away with three medals each. The men at the helms of these swift, finicky craft needed the cunning of a chess player, the agility of a gymnast. And experience counted too. The most weathered sailor was Denmark's Paul Elvstrom, 59, career winner of four Olympic gold medals, whose daughter Trine served as crew. With Trine flying on the boat-stabilizing trapeze, the gray-bearded Elvstrom raced to a fourth-place finish in the Tornado catamaran class. The U.S. had its own old salt, William Buchan, 49, who finished first in the Star class...
Women athletes are just beginning to discover what their bodies, properly trained, can do. Says Swimmer Nancy Hogshead, 22, winner of three gold medals: "Once the Marilyn Monroe look was really in. Now it's the lean, muscular, runner look. I'm not going to stop being a world-class athlete because swimming gives me dry skin or something." Retired Shot-Putter Maren Seidler, who holds the U.S. women's record, says, "I can remember being the only girl in any weight room...
...they did it with humor, grace, gaiety and even... sportsmanship. Try telling the women's rowing crew that women can't get along with each other, or the volleyball team that women lack commitment. Try telling the marathoners-collapsing Gabriela Andersen-Schiess and the surprise bronze-medal winner Rosa Mota- enough. These women tested their limits, and having the chance to do that is what sports and feminism are all about. -By Jane O'Reilly. Reported by Deborah Kaplan/Los Angeles
Chinese athletes did, and for every winner piously proclaiming that the victory was "for the Motherland," another, like Featherweight Lifter Chen Weiqiang, 26, put it more personally: "I got the gold medal, and it feels good." Before leaving China for the Games, Gymnast Li Ning, 20, who won three golds, a silver and a bronze, had spoken in a similar vein: "I am going to Los Angeles to pick up gold medals. I know what I am talking about, and I mean what...
Early in the Olympics, high up in the temporary bleachers flanking the swimming pool, I found myself sitting beside John Naber, the winner of four gold medals in Montreal in 1976. Across the way on the superstructure of the diving platforms, the women divers were collected on the various levels, chatting among themselves, elegant and lovely, like egrets in a rookery...