Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Benoit took to running eleven years ago, at 16, as therapy after a skiing accident. Where most world-class runners gravitate to shinier training sites, Benoit remains partial to Portland, Me., even in the icy winter. "People in Maine respect me for who I am, not for what I've accomplished," she says. "I have no hassles out on the roads. I'm just another Mainer." Norway's Grete Waitz, 30, whom Benoit has never beaten, is favored to take the gold medal. But Benoit arrives at the Games with a sense of having already won something...
McKinney is not the only one with a shot at the gold in a sport his countrymen forget about between Olympics. Kevin Winter is a cheerful, wide fellow, 5 ft. 10½ in. tall and 198 Ibs. heavy, tops, who figures that he has an excellent chance for gold in the 90-kg weight-lifting event. Winter is quick to add that although he was the nation's best lifter, pound for pound, at the May trials in Las Vegas, he would not be a medal prospect if the Soviet-bloc countries were coming. "Maybe a few American medals...
Carrying the financial weight of his sport has not been easy. Winter, who lives in San Jose, Calif., calculates that it costs him about $10,000 a year to train. He has a half-time job, with full-time pay, at the First Interstate Bank, a major Olympic team sponsor. In effect, the bank is giving him a generous half-salary subsidy. Even so, he and his wife Gloria, who works at a state unemployment office, go in the hole about $200 a month for his training costs. There is no money in endorsing weights or lifting suits. Amino acids...
...Winter is not griping. He is in love with his sport. He may as well stay with amateur lifting, since there is no pro tour to join. "A few guys can go on and make a little money lifting women or logs or refrigerators," he says, "but that's show business." He figures he can add an extra 10 kilos of useful beef and compete at the 100-kg weight. In the meantime, he believes that "negative emotions, like greed or hate, can adversely affect performance, while positive ones, like love or generosity, can improve it." To be calm...
...family endured with good humor and pride. They did not feel neglected. Though her district is mostly blue-collar, Ferraro lives in an upper-middle-class enclave in Forest Hills. Her husband's successful real estate business helps pay for a winter retreat in St. Croix and a summer house on Fire Island. For the children (Laura, 18, about to enter Brown; John Jr., 20, a student at Middlebury College, and Donna, 22, a Financial Analyst on Wall Street) there were expensive educations. A full-time housekeeper does the cooking and cleaning. When a photographer asked Ferraro to pose...