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- <text id=92TT1742>
- <title>
- Aug. 03, 1992: Gearing Up
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Aug. 03, 1992 AIDS: Losing the Battle
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- OLYMPICS, Page 62
- 1992 SUMMER GAMES
- Gearing Up
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- <p> Maybe engineers and designers should get Olympic medals. In
- the pole vault, heights jumped 30% with the switch from bamboo to
- fiber-glass and carbon-composite poles. Tracks have been
- resurfaced to give runners more bounce and speed, and pools have
- been designed to dampen wave action that buffets swimmers. Some
- athletes fear their events could become contests of equipment
- and facilities, but as any coach would admit, it still takes a
- great swimmer to bring out the best in a great pool.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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