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...fertile field for biomechanics experts, who use infrared lasers, force plates, high-speed video cameras and computers to isolate the motions and moments that make a difference. Scientists have analyzed every type of athletic movement, from a diver's twist to a runner's stride, from a weight lifter's lunge to a rower's stroke...
...Robinson's drive and determination have never been in doubt. A dedicated weight lifter who bulked up from 125 lbs. to more than 200 lbs. in college, he rises at dawn and begins each day with a workout, sometimes following along with a video called Buns of Steel. (Robinson's exercise routine has become the stuff of legend. Business Week reported three years ago that he did 300 sit- ups each morning; FORTUNE said at least 600 in a 1989 story; Vanity Fair put the number last year...
...standards. But a single country's veto blocks decisions there, making it an awkward vehicle for asserting U.S. leadership in Europe. The European Community, on its part, cannot accept the U.S. as a member. That leaves NATO, where the U.S. has long been first among equals, as the heavy lifter in Baker's refurbished Atlantic house. By encouraging the alliance to become the main forum for setting Western defense policy, Baker wants to upgrade NATO to be the key transatlantic body, even after reductions in defense budgets and troop levels have undercut the group's traditional source of strength...
Deputy Uri Vlasov, a 1960 Olympics gold-medal weight lifter, blistered the KGB as "that most secret and conspiratorial of all state institutions." Vlasov should know: in 1953 the Committee for State Security hauled off his father, a diplomat, and the man was never seen again. Make the KGB's budget public and give the Congress the right to appoint its head, urged Vlasov. Move the agency to modest offices in Moscow's suburbs. Turn its forbidding headquarters at Dzerzhinsky Square into a library. "The bloody history of the main building is too unforgettable," he said. "This is where...
...compulsion Dressel felt to dope is widespread and growing. So says Bruce Wilhelm, a weight lifter who competed in the 1976 Olympics and admits that he used steroids during his competitive days. "Sure I did. There's nobody in the world who hasn't. The difference today," says Wilhelm, now a member of the U.S.O.C. subcommittee on substance and drug abuse, "is that the dosages have increased ten- to 100-fold. It's crazy...