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Among the unknown Americans, 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...
...pool was laid out east-west instead of north-south, and the glare got in their eyes on every turn, so they said. One backstroker, the best in the world by nearly a second, sulked on the victory stand after winning a gold in the 200 meters. This was Rick Carey of the U.S., who had cockily promised a world record, and then failed to swim it by almost a second and a half, which is to say by a ton or so. On the way out of the stadium he did not wave at the crowd or acknowledge...
...most passionate competitor on the entire team may be a swimmer, Rick Carey, 21, the University of Texas junior, academic all-American, computer whiz and sore loser. "Rick not only hates to lose, he hates to go slow," says Coach John Collins of the Badger Swim Club in Larchmont, N. Y. "It's like he has a devil over his shoulder who drives him to go fast." Carey seems to have put behind him his notorious goggle-throwing days. But then, he has not had much occasion for temper lately. He is the world-record holder in both...
Short for a backstroker, slightly under 6 ft., he is as strong as, but less stringy than, John Naber, whose gold-medal records from 1976 lasted seven years, until Carey broke them. Naber says, "Rick is driven more by internal motivation than by external competition," which is a good thing. Carey's archrival, East German Dirk Richter, will not be in Los Angeles to push him, one of the keenest losses of the boycott...
...more modern predicaments are "those of the poor relations on the U.S. Olympic team, competitors like Rick McKinney, 30, of Glendale, Ariz., and one of the best archers in the world. He has won the world championship twice and the national championship six times. If McKinney should develop a finger blister, the U.S. also has Darrell Pace, 27, of Hamilton, Ohio, Olympic trials winner, seven times national champion and the Olympic gold medal winner in 1976. Last year Pace seemed to have tied McKinney for the world championship, only to see one of his arrows hit another arrow...