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...ruptured tendons. Barcelona has long been famous as a city of artists and laborers, a "city of marvels" where discipline and flight converge. Now, to the famous roll call of its industrious dreamers -- Casals and Picasso, Miro and Lorca, Gaudi and Garcia Marquez -- can be added some new names: Joyner-Kersee and Jordan, Scherbo and Laumann. Besides, Barcelona now has something to remember Thimbu by, and even in television-less Thimbu there is a rumor of a place called Barcelona...
...offers a little of the same excitement -- when Cameroon met England two years ago, all the small countries of the world were surely backing one of their number against a former imperial power -- the Olympics offer a double dose: a little competitor from a little country up against Jackie Joyner-Kersee...
...Jackie Joyner-Kersee...
...long-jump champion of the 1988 Games, she became the greatest -- and perhaps best known -- woman athlete in the world. Her world- record point total in the seven-event heptathlon (7,291) is regarded as virtually unmatchable. But one warm night in Tokyo last August, the superhuman Jackie Joyner-Kersee seemed momentarily mortal. She pulled a hamstring muscle in the 200-m race and left the world championships on a stretcher. "I thought my career was over," she says. It was just a temporary abdication though...
After therapy, Joyner-Kersee, 30, is back in form, and favored to become the first to win the Olympic heptathlon twice. But these days Joyner-Kersee seems less concerned about her place in athletic history than with using her good fortune to help out in her hometown. Last November she chartered a plane to take 114 kids from East St. Louis, Illinois, to see the Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City. "People think it's special to be an all-around athlete," she says. "But it's more important to be an all-around person...