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...kind of a contest," Lenzi said Sunday. "After I missed two dives, I thought, well, I'm probably out because this is probably the greatest 3-meter field of divers you'll ever see in the world." Now Lenzi has a chance to top the field again. China's Xiong Ni stands in first place, Dmitry Sautin of Russia, the pre-Olympic favorite, is in third and American Scott Donie is in fourth. Lenzi retired after the 1993 season, suffering from post-Olympic gold stress. He fell into debt and briefly considered selling his gold medal to pay for flight...
...dive at his level, and now teenagers from the Soviet Union, East Germany and especially China threatened to beat him. At 28, Louganis is a superbly fit adult male; his imitators tend to look like underclassmen at a military school. But after nine dives he was 3 points behind Xiong Ni of China, young-looking even for his 14 years. Xiong's tenth and last dive was near perfect. Louganis, following him, somehow found the grace and courage to be a shade better in a harder dive, a flashing reverse 3 1/2 somersault. The win gave him both diving golds...
...xiong is a visiting scholar from International Politics Department of Fudan University, Shanghai, China. He is here on a fellowship from Harvard-Yenching Institute...