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Sports in 1992: An A to Z guide

LONDON, Dec 25: Following la an A-WZ ruUc to sport tn 1992 compiled by Age nee rance Pressc:
LONDON, Dec 25: Following la an A-WZ ruUc to sport tn 1992 compiled by Age nee rance Pressc:
A for Andre Agassi, who finally won a Grand Slam tour-nament at W1mb-lcdon. Arthur Ashe, a 'former Wimbledon cham^pion, announced he had caught the ll.IV virus from a blood Imosfuslon during open heart surgery. Stung by the salary offered bv Ixcds United.
Swedish loulballer I’atrick Ander sson snubjied the English champions saying: If Leeds pay
peanuts, they'll get monkeys Bfor Barcelona, cradle of the 1992 Summer Olym
pics and coffin of the Soviet Union aa a sporting power. British veteran Linford Christie won the Illustrious 100 metre gold. The other Barcelona. Johan Cruyffs, won football's European Cup thanks to an almighty boot by
another Dutchman. Richard Kocman, while the almighty punch of Riddick Bowe ended Evander Holyfield's reign as the heavyweight boxing champion of the world.
the iDC's drug busters.
Dior Gall .Devers, who won
the women's lOOm gold in Barcelona after an astonishing recovery from Grave's disease, she came close to having both feet ' amputated. Australia's Michael Doohan nearly had ■ foot amputated after a crash which cost him the world 500 cc
for Jim Courier, mcrVS tennis' number one, and goal ace Eric Cantona, who did more for Anglo-French relations during 10 months at Leeds United than both governments put together. Clenbutcrol would have been । the unsung hero of the Olympics. had it not been for
motorcycle titles Denmark came front nowhere to win the European championship football, without even qualifying for the finals.
Ffor Nick Faldo. His sln-gle-mtndedness. as his friends like lo call It. earned him top spot in the golf rankings but he still has the smallest fan club In sport. Fellow golfer David Fcherty increased his following the - northern Irishman's frarik answer lo being asked why
Efor Stefan Edberg, who won the US Open and went lop of the ATP rankings In one day, and Claude Evin, a French politician whose law banning tobacco advertising appeared to sound 11k death knell for his country's Formula One and motorcycle Grand Prix races in 1993
naa tmprovea —na-m buggerm-iki-Know. Its nothing to do with hart! work and practice.
Piawrafam just Hfor snookers Stephen
Hendry, who delighted TV audiences with hts return to form, but refused to attend the BBC sportsperaons-of the-ycar awards, claiming that the corporation treated snooker players as second class cilizfns
Gfor England's Paul Gascoigne who kick-started I hts football career in Itlay with' Lazio. Australia's Wayne Gardner finished his motorcycling. "I'm getting out while I'm'still in one piece/ । said the 1987 World Cham | pion. He wu» Joking. Bui only
I for Spain's Miguel Indurain. who pedalled hts way U> a second consecutive victory In the Tour de France, ranaway with the tour of Italy and lopped the world ranking. Goran Ivanisevic won war-torn Croatia's first Olympic medal after a series of marathon struggles, saying
You haw lo fight, you have to die." Fortunately for him. he was only playing tennis.
J for Magic Johnson, who retired from NBA bas ketball because of the AIDS virus, but promptly doml nated the Olympic toyrna ment Along with Michael Jordan, he formed the van guard of an Invincible Dream
Vinnie Jones was fined 20.000 pounds for revealing his cache of dirty tricks
I V- for Katrin Krabbe. ace lx used again over drugs. Germany s sprint world < ham pion dodged one ban on a technicality but was later caught using Ck-nbuteroi.
I Indicated he was ready lo , retire, and then changed his mind, while future Icecnd
Janaher Khan scored a hallru-k victory in the J^orid and British Opens and number one in
Liar Cari Lewis who hit I the headlines for not winning a Ace. in fan for not 1 even qualifying for the i Olympic lOOm team at the US trials Ivan Lendl swelled the ranks of Czech-born Americans Gary Lineker quit
LriWn goal-scoring record.
Mfor Diego Maradona who started playing football again. Escaping from Napoli to Jolp Sevilla. After months ■pent threatening to quit football altogether, many people wished he would. Nigel Mansell finally became I Formula One world chani-
DMaradon* pion, only to quit the sport In disgust after failing to reach an agreement with Williams Renault for 1993. AC Milan proved as difficult lo beat tn 1992 as they did the previous season.
Nfor Martina Navratilova, tennis's original
Czech-born American, who broke Ihe record for tournament victories.
Ofor Olympics, with Barcelona following hard on • the heels ot the Winter Games in Albertville. Alexander Olshanlctsky. a director of Jcruslacm’s medical centre for impotence and sexuality, claimed lovemaking Improves women athletes' performances and should be pari of
their training programme. Orgasm is the key to peak performance, he claimed.
Pfor Pakistan, cnckci s
World Cup winners, who later had to field allegations of tampering with balls. Jean-Picree Papin went to AG Milan to find out what ft's like, to sit on a substitutes' bench. Another millionaire French spectators was Alain Prost, without a drive and
killing time as a TV commentator before signing for Williams Renault.
Qis world class leg-spinner Abdul Qadir, who lost his place in the Pakistan cricket team, and missed out on the glory.
Rlor Wayne Rainey who completed hat-trick of 500cc world titles for Yamaha, but admitted that Wayne Doohan's crash had helped: "I've been competing with someone who has been lying on a hospital bed," he said. Ireland's Stephen Roche announced he would be
Sthe letter of champions. "Grunting" Monica Seles, rally master Carlos Sainz and Vitaly Scherbo, the Belarus gymnast who won six Olympic gold medals and the firm conviction that he was about to become very rich. He didn't. The Springboks made their post-apartheid return
to the world stage in football, rugby and cricket.
Tfor Mike Tyson. The .former world heavyweight boxing champion went to jail for raping a contestant at a beauty pageant. Indias teenage prodigy Sachin Tendulkar made cricketing history by becoming a Yorkshire's first foreign olavcr Alberto 1^4 fiomha
Tomba delighted ski fans at Albvertviile.
Ufor the Unified Team, which competed at two Olympics before dissolving into the Independent republics of the former Soviet Union.
champions Barcelona.
Vfor Marco van Basten. AC
Milan's Dutch striker is arguably the best footballer in the world, but still has to face his father's wrath for a bad pass or an ever rarer mls-Kick. Norwegian minnows Viking Stavanger conceded only one goal tn 180 minutes of football with European
Wbr Sweden's Jan Ove Waldner, who staked his claim to be the greatest table tennis player 1n the world. That snooker hero James Wattana competed a televised maximum break of 147 and was promptly told that his father had been shot dead. He completed the tournament.
Xfor Li Xiaoushuang, who stood up to the gymnastics might of the all-conquering Unified Team, snatching the prized floor gold from bcncallr ihc nose of world all-round champion Grigori Mlsution.
Yfor Anthony YcboAh. Eintracht Frankfurt's Gha nlan Marksman, who became one of the three Africans to lead the goalscoring table tn a European league (The others are Nigerian Ricky Owubo-kiriat, Portugal's Boavista and Liberian George Wcah at Paris St Germain) Pakistan's Wa
qar Younus, along with Wasim Akram, became the most feared pace attack tn cricket
Z. for Kim Zmeskal. tipped lo win a million'gold medals In Barcelona. The American world champion gymnast who had never made a mistake in competition fell off the beam, stepped outside the mat and vaulted onto her backside.