FEAR AND GAMES Pressure to perform mounts at the Olympics FINAL Edition

• Published in: The Sun (Baltimore, Md. : 1837)
• Main Author: Mike Preston and Bill Glauber
• Format: Newspaper Article
• Language: English
• Published: Baltimore, Md Tribune Publishing Company, LLC 05.08.1992
• Subjects: Olympic games; Parker, Denise; Zmeskal, Kim; Barcelona, Spain

These Olympics have been defined more by failure than success. For every Dream Team, there are dozens of stories of Olympic nightmares, of athletes who buckle under the stress of performing on a world stage. Mark Lenzi, the gold medalist in the 3-meter springboard diving, listens to U2. Swimming tri...