Strong enough Friday to win Olympic bronze, the youngest American ever to win a medal in Olympic weightlifting. Strong enough to like herself, in spite of the rest of us. Strong in all ways. They're calling these the Glamour Games. Swimmers wear waterproof makeup.
Runners paint their fingernails.
Everyone, it seems, is in tent on showing skin. It has been suggested here, not totally facetiously, that the TV ratings would soar if they played the women's water polo in the nude. Cheryl Haworth just gets on with it. She will not appear in a naked-jock calendar. She won't go topless in a national magazine, prompting yet another debate on the place of sex in women's sports.