July 22, 1992

The four women who figure to make up the U.S. 's medley relay team are dissimilar in many ways, but they form a potent unit

The high-flying Americans are also scoring big in the marketing game

A gold medal winner on U.S. teams in '84 and '88, Teresa Edwards hopes to bring home yet another Olympic title

<b><i>Having fled oppression in Bulgaria, Naim Suleymanoglu now strains under the adoration of the entire Turkish people.</i></b>

Eric Griffin is intent on not having his gold medal dream shattered in '92, as it was in '88

Ron Fraser's final coaching mission is to take Team USA to the gold medal

Squirrels, bears and rival kayakers are all wary of Mike Herbert

Joel Despaigne's ferocious spikes have helped make Cuba a smashing success

Olympians find that speed skating backgrounds often convert into pedal power

For Italy's Abbagnale brothers, winning a third straight Olympic gold in pair with coxswain is a serious business

Sam Jones will put her battered body on the line for a third—and final—Olympics

Bob Costas, the anchorman for NBC's Olympic television coverage, is, as always, voluminously prepared

Olympic purists should know by now there's no stopping the marketing bandwagon

When Michael Jordan and Sergei Bubka, two Olympic biggies, got together, international goodwill reached new heights

Of all the SI staffers who worked on this Olympic Preview Issue, none has a more personal interest in the Barcelona Games than editorial operations coordinator Maris Hearn. That's because she has...

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The Olympic decathlon will be contested on Aug. 5 and 6, but the key moment in the event may have come on June 27, when Dan O'Brien no-heighted in the pole vault at the U.S. Olympic Trials and...

The news out of Germany is that Jörg Hoffmann, the world champion in the 1,500-meter freestyle, was dreadful in the country's Olympic swim trials, dog-paddling his way to a 15:15.93 clocking—25.57...

The friendship of Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Heike Drechsler was forged in and by their own titanic struggles. "They are the Ali and Frazier of the women's long jump," says Bobby Kersee, who is...

Does Team USA have a chance against Cuba in baseball? Does any team have a chance?

It shapes up as a classic confrontation: water polo's best offensive player, Spain's Manuel Estiarte, going one-on-one with the best goalie, Craig Wilson of the U.S. Sure, it's a team sport, but...

The showdown in the women's 10,000 meters between Liz McColgan of Great Britain and Elana Meyer of South Africa should be a barnburner. McColgan came away from the first women's Olympic 10,000, in...

Except for their shared weight class—149.5 pounds—they are diametrically different fellows. Arsen Fadzaev, a 30-year-old Russian, is a six-time world champion and 1988 Olympic gold medalist who...

Neither of their countries has won Olympic gold in track and field, but world shot put champs Werner Günthör of Switzerland and Huang Zhihong of China following story) could break the drought

Huang Zhihong speaks spontaneously, like somebody just out of solitary confinement. She sings spontaneously, too. Huang, the women's world champion in the shot put, did some extemporaneous...