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- <text id=90TT1882>
- <title>
- July 16, 1990: On The Beam
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- July 16, 1990 Twentysomething
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 71
- On the Beam
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
- </p>
- <p> The balance beam is a straight and narrow length of pure
- treachery. "I was really scared of doing anything at first,"
- says Kim Zmeskal. That was eight years ago. Now Zmeskal, 14,
- is the U.S. senior women's all-around gymnastics champ. The
- mighty mite from Houston--she is 4 ft., 6 in. and weighs 70
- lbs.--has been putting in six hours a day, six days a week
- to be ready for the Goodwill Games that begin in Seattle next
- week. And after that? Perhaps the Olympics in '92. Her coach
- would feel right at home. He's Bela Karolyi, who trained gold
- medalists Nadia Comaneci and Mary Lou Retton.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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