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...number of foreigners are permitted to do each year; he graduated in the top 10% of his class. At West Point, Ramos was a member of the M-1 company, which was reserved for cadets 5 ft. 6 in. to 5 ft. 7 in. tall. He was a weight lifter, and is still devoted to fitness: he jogs every day at 5 a.m. and is an ardent skydiver. Ramos went on to earn a master's degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois. As a young officer he saw combat in Korea and Viet...
...Archer Rick McKinney won a silver medal. Pentathlete Mike Storm helped his team to a silver and finished fifth in individual competition. Single-Scull Rower John Biglow came in fourth, the women's flatwater kayaking team also placed fourth, and Fencer Jana Angelakis lost in the preliminaries. Weight Lifter Kevin Winter dropped out because of injuries...
Chinese athletes did, and for every winner piously proclaiming that the victory was "for the Motherland," another, like Featherweight Lifter Chen Weiqiang, 26, put it more personally: "I got the gold medal, and it feels good." Before leaving China for the Games, Gymnast Li Ning, 20, who won three golds, a silver and a bronze, had spoken in a similar vein: "I am going to Los Angeles to pick up gold medals. I know what I am talking about, and I mean what...
...himself. "If you want to be the best, you have to sacrifice," he says. "This sounds so desperate, but I don't mean it the way it sounds. I didn't have anything else." Though Louganis has never pumped iron, he is as brawny as a weight lifter, and his legs are as developed as a dancer's. At the University of California, Irvine, he majored in drama and minored in dance, including classical ballet...
...Kevin Winter is a cheerful, wide fellow, 5 ft. 10½ in. tall and 198 Ibs. heavy, tops, who figures that he has an excellent chance for gold in the 90-kg weight-lifting event. Winter is quick to add that although he was the nation's best lifter, pound for pound, at the May trials in Las Vegas, he would not be a medal prospect if the Soviet-bloc countries were coming. "Maybe a few American medals will help revive interest in the sport in the U.S.," he says wistfully. "It's been pretty depressed lately...