SUMMER GAMES SPOTLIGHT : BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS / DAY 15 : TORRENCE WILL CONTINUE TO SPEAK HER MIND
Gwen Torrence finished fourth in the 100 meters and afterward said that three women in the race were “dirty,” using performance-enhancing drugs, including two of the three who beat her. Those words took the joy out of her 200-meter gold and her brilliant relay finish on Saturday.
But would she do anything different?
“The only thing I would change is that I wouldn’t name the number of people,” Torrence said. “But I will always have an opinion. I look up to Charles Barkley, because he’s a big man who does whatever he wants and gets away with it because he’s a professional athlete. I’m just a black woman.”
* This a daily roundup of Olympic-related items from reporters in Barcelona from the Los Angeles Times, Newsday and Baltimore Sun, all Times-Mirror newspapers.
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