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Olympics
Continued from Page 1
Later, the women’s basket
ball team gave the United
States its Atlanta-high 44th
gold medal by breezing past
Brazil.
The gold haul was the Ameri
cans’ best in a non-boycott
Olympics since its 45 in 1968.
The U.S. total of 101 put hosts
atop a non-boycott medal charts
for the first time since those
games, too.
The United States, enjoying
the home field advantage and a
brilliant showing by its women,
still fell short of their Barcelona
haul of 108 medals. But they be
came the first nation to crack
2,000 cumulative medals in the
last 100 years.
The last medal of the Cen
tennial Games went to the
women’s hoops team, which
shot 72 percent in jumping to
an 11-point halftime lead.
It increased the lead in the
second half, cruising — much
as the star-laden men’s Dream
Team did the night before — to
an easy gold medal win.
Lisa Leslie led the Americans
with 29 points as the women re
established themselves as the
world’s premier power.
“I just knew I wanted to win
and have my teammates count
on me scoring inside,” said
Leslie, who was l2-for-14 from
the field. “It’s the best game I’ve
ever played, the best moment of
my life. We’re No. 1.”
Australia captured the
bronze, defeating the Ukraine
66-56.
Reid, the last American
boxer in the tournament, was
getting pummeled in the
third round of his final
match with Cuban Alfredo
Duvergel when he landed a
devastating right. Duvergel
went down; Reid had sudden
ly swapped almost certain
silver for a gold, lifting the
American medal count into
triple digits.
“I was going for the home
run, because I was down 10
points and it’s hard to make up
10 points in the last round,” said
the 22-year-old Philadelphian. “I
knew he was beating me. I just
wanted to hurt him. I threw the
right to hurt him.”
When Duvergel was counted
out, 156-pounder Reid leaped
across the ring and into the
arms of coach A1 Mitchell. The
punch kept U.S. boxers from a
gold medal shutout in a non-
boycotted Olympics for the first
time since 1948. The American’s
six medals — five bronze — dou
bled their take in Barcelona four
years ago.
Marathoner Josia Thug-
wane, all of 5-foot-2 and 99
pounds, rolled out of bed early
Sunday and outran everybody
to capture the marathon. It
was the first gold medal ever
won by a black South African,
and the closest marathon in
Olympic history — he won by
a mere three seconds.
The victory set off a wild cele
bration in the South African
mine where Thugwane, a former
janitor, now works.
“What the medal means to
me is that our problems are
over, in our country,” said
Thugwane, 25, who dedicated
his victory of South African
president Nelson Mandela.
“We are free to run and be
part of the international
community. We are back in
the fold.”
The men’s volleyball title
went to the Netherlands in a
dramatic 15-12, 9-15, 16-14, 9-
15, 17-15 win over Italy. Yu
goslavia won the bronze.
The final medal count from
Atlanta: the United States had
101 medals (44 golds, 32 silvers,
25 bronze), followed by Ger
many’s 65 (20-18-27), Russia’s
63 (26-21-16) and China’s 50
(16-22-12).
The Sunday morning
marathon wafe the perfect
metaphor for the Atlanta
Games.
Athletically, it was inspiring.
Logistically, it was a nightmare.
The games’ traditional closing
event began at 7 a.m., and end
ed in front of 80,000 empty seats
at Olympic Stadium.
If the Atlanta Games reached
the finish line in strong form,
there were plenty of missteps
over its 17 days.
Problems with traffic and
transportation abounded. The
first terrorist attack at a games
since Munich in 1972 targeted a
downtown park, where a pipe
bomb killed one woman and in
jured more than 100 people.
The bomber, eight days after
the blast, remains at large.
But the events themselves
transcended it all to leave a
legacy of athletic greatness,
with moments poignant, bril
liant and bittersweet.
The games were bookended
by Muhammad Ali, who lit the
Olympic flame at the opening
ceremony, then received a re
placement for his lost 1960 gold
medal at halftime of the Dream
Team’s gold-medal victory over
Yugoslavia.
Ali, his hand trembling, lifted
the new medal to his lips for a
kiss — and then raised his eyes
in a knowing glance that trans
ported him back to Rome 1960,
when young Cassius Clay cap
tured the original gold.
There was tiny gymnast
Strug, her damaged left foot
tightly wrapped as coach
Bela Karoyli carried her to
the medal stand after Strug’s
courageous vault helped her
te'am win gold. There was
Johnson, gold shoes on his
feet and gold thoughts in his
head, tearing up the track
for an unprecedented sweep
of the men’s 200- and 400-
meter races.
America’s women were par
ticularly successful, with the
gymnastics, soccer, softball and
synchronized swimming teams
all collecting golds. The surpris
ing swimming team racked up
25 medals, led by 23-year-old
Amy Van Dyken’s games-high
four golds.
“Women’s sports are on
the uprise, and the crowd
that came out to watch this
match demonstrated this
rise,” soccer forward Shan
non MacMillan said one day
after her team defeated Chi
na 2-1 before 76,841 fans.
A record 11,000 athletes from
197 countries made this the
biggest Olympics. And for NBC,
it was the best — a slickly pack
age product that played to a
record audience as the games
were watched in 90 percent of
America’s 95.9 million TV
households.
Compared to recent Olympic
hosts such as picturesque Lille-
hammer and beautiful
Barcelona, though, Atlanta was
a letdown. USA Today gave it
an F for ambience, and only Bil
ly Payne remained convinced
these Centennial Games were
the best ever.
Medalstable
1996 ATLANTA
Through Sunday, August 4.
Through 271 total medals
Country
G
s
B
Ttotol
United States
44 32
25
101
Germany
20
18
27
65
Russia
26 21
16
63
China
16 22
12
50
Australia
9
9
23
41
France
15
7
15
37
Italy
13
10
12
35
South Korea
7
15
5
27
Cuba
9
8
8
25
Ukraine
9
2
12
23
Canada
3
11
8
22
Hungary
7
4
10
21
Romania
4
7
9
20
Netherlands
4
5
10
19
Poland
7
5
5
17
Spain
5
6
6
17
Bulgaria
3
7
5
15
Brazil
3
3
9
15
Britain
1
8
6
15
Belarus
1
6
8
15
Japan
3
6
5
14
Czech Republic
4
3
4
11
Kazakstan
3
4
4
11
Greece
4
4
0
8
Sweden
2
4
2
8
Kenya
1
4
3
8
Switzerland
4
3
0
7
Norway
2
2
3
7
Denmark
4
1
1
6
Turkey
4
1
1
6
New Zealand
3
2
1
6.
Belgium
2
2
2
6
Nigeria
2
1
3
6
Jamaica
1
3
2
6
South Africa
3
1
1
5
North Korea
2
1
2
5
Ireland
3
6
i
4
Finland
1
2
1
4
Indonesia
1
1
2
4
Yugoslavia
1
1
2
4
Algeria
2
0
1
3
Ethiopia
2
0
1
3
Iran
1
1
1
3
Slovakia
1
1
1
3
Argentina
0
2
1
3
Austria
0
1
2
3
Armenia
1
1
0
2
Croatia
1
1
0
2
Portugal
1
0
1
2
Thailand
1
0
1
2
Namibia
0
2
0
2
Slovenia
0
2
0
2
Malaysia
0
1
1
2
Moldova
0
1
1
2
Uzbekistan
0
1
1
2
Georgia
0
0
2
2
Morocco
0
0
2
2
Trinidad&Tobago
0
0
2
2
Burundi
1
0
0
1
Costa Rica
1
0
0
1
Ecuador
1
0
0
1
Hong Kong
1
0
0
1
Syria
1
0
0
1
Azerbaijan
0
1
0
1
Bahamas
0
1
0
1
Latvia
0
1
0
1
F^hilippines
0
1
0
1
Taiwan
0
1
0
1
Tonga
0
1
0
1
Zambia
0
1
0
1
India
0
0
1
1
Israel
0
0
1
1
Lithuania
0
0
1
1
Mexico
0
0
1
1
Mongolia
0
0
1
1
Mozambique
0
0
1
1
Puerto Rico
0
0
1
1
Tunisia
0
0
1
1
Uganda
0
0
1
1
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who used to feed The King a decadent, high-cholesterol diet.
"I went to the casket and looked, I betcha, 50 times,"
says Mary Jenkins, who worked 26 years for Elvis, 14 of
them as his cook.
Jenkins is set to appear in The Burger & The King: The
Life & Cuisine of Elvis Presley, an Aug. 16 Cinemax docu
mentary on Presley's eating habits from trim childhood to
overweight adult.
"He said that's the only thing he got out of life, the only
thing he loved — eating," Jenkins said in the Aug. 10 issue
of TV Guide.
"For breakfast, he'd have homemade biscuits fried in
butter, sausage patties, four scrambled eggs, and some
times fried bacon."
Baseball's Rose says new stadiums
small, unfair for pitchers
Goldwater: 'I would first vote for
Dole if he was the only one running/
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — During the Republican pri
maries, GOP conservative patriarch Barry Goldwater en
dorsed Bob Dole for president. But Goldwater says Demo
cratic President Clinton is doing a good job.
"I don't care if he's a Democrat or Republican — I
would rather he be a Republican. But
I think Mr. Clinton is going to be a
good president," Goldwater said Sat
urday during a scholarship forum.
Asked what he thought of this
year's election and who might win,
the 87-year-old Goldwater drew
laughter from the audience when he
said, "I would first vote for Dole if he
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Pete Rose was in town
again, but not because he made it into baseball's Hall of Fame
For the second year in a row. Rose made an appear
ance during induction weekend at the National Baseball
Hall of Fame, signing autographs for
up to $50 at a baseball wax museum
two blocks down from the Hall.
"Like everybody else, I am just
waiting for the game to take off
again. I think people are slowly but
surely coming back," Rose said on
Saturday.
The majors' all-time hit leader said
he felt pity for today's pitching staffs in
this season of more home runs.
"Those (new) stadiums are beauti
ful to look at, but they're small — it's
just not really fair for pitchers."
Rose was banned from baseball in 1989 for alleged
gambling ties and is ineligible for the Hall of Fame. Fie
served a five-month jail term in 1990 and paid a $50,(
fine for unrelated income tax charges.
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was the only one running, but ... "
Goldwater went on to explain his
feelings about Clinton, saying, "I
don't have to get in bed with him.
But I think he's a good president and
he has a very good wife."
Goldwater, a 1964 Republican presidential nominee
and former U.S. senator from Arizona, invited Dole to his
Paradise Valley home outside Phoenix, earlier this year in
advance of Arizona's presidential primary.
At the time, Goldwater jokingly pronounced himself
and Dole "the new liberals of the Republican party."
In recent years, Goldwater has taken some stands that
have displeased conservative Republicans, including his
support for gays in the military and his earlier alignment
with a possible candidacy of Gen. Colin Powell.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Esquire magazine is publishing
a picture in its September edition of a relaxed and smiling
President Clinton in shirt and jeans swinging a golf club in
the secluded Treaty Room of tne White House.
The room, which serves as the
president's private office, is strictly off
limits to photographers — but not to
fledgling shutterbug Chelsea Clinton.
Esquire said that the White
House Press Office was not happy
about the magazine obtaining tne
photo of the president in a restricted
area, but that Clinton wanted the
picture taken by his daughter to ap
pear in the magazine.
"Only someone with Chelsea's
connections could have obtained
such a rare photograph of the presi
dent," Esquire beamed.
Delegate survey shows abortion debate
could reach GOP convention floor
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WASHINGTON (AP) — De
spite hope for a show of unity,
there’s a good chance the Repub
lican National Convention will
erupt in a nasty floor fight over
abortion, according to a platform
committee survey.
Delegates who want to keep
strong anti-abortion language in
the Republican Party platform
will have the upper hand when
platform committee meetings
start Monday, a survey by The
Associated Press indicates.
But the survey of all but a hand
ful of the 107 platform committee
members found opponents of the
plank had more than enough sup
port to put the issue in front of all
1,990 Republican delegates at the
convention in San Diego.
Leaders of anti-abortion
groups predicted they would
handily win the committee vote to
retain support for an abortion
ban. “There’s no question that the
plank will stay,” said Gary Bauer
of the Family Research Council.
Still, the Christian Coalition
was preparing for battle. Execu
tive Director Ralph Reed said
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Isham said although almost all of the clubs
have catered to the students, “ our bread and but
ter has always been the family market.”
James Franks, a sales representative for Gold’s
Gym, said business is still good despite the lack of
student attendance.
“One thing I’ve noticed recently is students are
coming back because of the crowds (at the Rec
Center),” Franks said. “It’s harder to get in and
out for a quick workout.”
Franks said the owner of Gold’s, Steve
Lumpee, took actions to prevent the loss of busi-
But those opponents, who start
ed a lobbying effort Friday in San
Diego, already have more than the
27 votes needed to bring the issue
before the entire convention.
Presumptive GOP nominee
Bob Dole wants to keep the
plank but said he favors adding
“tolerance” language indicating
that some Republicans hold op
posing views.
Taking the issue to the floor,
where supporters of the plank
outnumber opponents but do not
have a majority in the AP sur
vey, could result in a bitter pub
lic debate and hurt Dole’s
chances of closing President
Clinton’s double-digit lead.
Rep. Henry Hyde of Illinois,
an abortion foe who chairs the
Platform Committee, said he ex
pected both the plank and GOP
harmony to survive.
“One common thread is that
everybody wants Dole to win and
be the next president,” Hyde
said. “And so while we’ll have ...
our debates and our discussions,
at the end of the day I think
there will be unity.”
ness. For example, the gym provides child care to
attract more families.
Isham said members of Jay’s Gym can transfer
their memberships to Aerofit. He hopes to replace
members they lost to the Rec Center opening.
“It will take a few years to get back to where we
were years ago,” Isham said. “We want to show a
sign of strength.”
Aerofit on Villa Maria Road has upgraded its
facility with new carpeting and new cardiovascu
lar equipment to attract more customers.
Kelly Turberville, a senior elementary educa
tion major, said she belongs to Gold’s Gym and
works out at the Rec Center.
“I prefer the Rec Center better than Gold’s be
cause of the new equipment, and instructions are
given on the weight-lifting machines,”
Turberville said.
the coalition would open a “com
munications command center
and a war room” to push the
anti-abortion language.
On the other side, the Repub
lican Coalition for choice opened
a San Diego office on Friday and
immediately set out to lobby
platform committee members.
“I think it’s very fluid. (Abor
tion opponents) don’t have it all
locked up,” said Sue Cullman of
the coalition.
According to the AP delegate
survey, 41 members of the com
mittee said they wanted to keep
the platform language, which ex
presses support for a constitution
al amendment to ban abortions.
Another 31 members said they
wanted to remove the plank, 11
said they did not know, 17 re
fused to answer the question and
seven could not be reached.
The results suggest opponents
of the platform language would
have a difficult time winning in
the committee, since they would
need to sway 23 of the 35 mem
bers who have not taken sides to
reach the 54-vote majority.
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