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Oscar Chaplin III
U.S. Olympic Weightlifting Team
Savannah College
The US only sends two men to compete in Olympic weightlift
ing, and one of them will be Oscar Chaplin III. Chaplin took the
overall gold medal in the Junior World Weightlifting
Championships this summer—and he was the first American in
the history of the Junior Worlds to do so.
He’s a four-time national champion, holds
three American records, and can lift 738
lbs. When he won his spot on the
Olympic team, he was overjoyed. “I still
can’t believe it. I mean I can, but I
can't. All I know is this is the greatest
day of my life.”
The greatest day, that is, until he lifts
that gold medal in Sydney.
Rmy Chow
U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Team
Stanford University
When she was 3, her mother tried to
enroll her in a ballet class, but was told
she was too young. So Amy Chow
signed up for gymnastics instead, a
decision that would result in two
Olympic journeys. Chow, 22, was a
member of the Magnificent Seven, the
American gymnastics team that won
the gold medal in Atlanta in 1996. She
quit training shortly after to concentrate
on pre-med studies at Stanford University. But
Sydney’s siren call was too strong—Chow decided to come back
to the sport and secured herself a spot on the Olympic team once
again. “There’s always new skills to learn. You can invent skills, do
harder skills, you can correct the technique of so many skills. I like
it, I’ve been going at it for 18 years,” said the dedicated Chow,
who's favorite event is the uneven bars. •
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neat net Tricks
By Jack Teems
Giant Leap Backwards
Use the right mouse button feature in Netscape or IE
instead of the Back button to return to previously visited sites.
This displays all recently visited sites so you can take a huge
leap backward.
Desktop Diet
Make room on your desktop by shrinking your icons. Right
click anywhere on the desktop and select Properties and the
Appearance tab. In the Item drop-down menu, select Icon,
choose a smaller size, and click OK. You may need to experi
ment to find the ideal size, small enough but still manageable.
Easy Mail and News Advance
Next time you’re sifting through your email or newsgroups
(like Usenet) the easiest way to advance to the next unread
message, with most readers, is simply the N key. If you want to
read all messages in sequence, including those previously read,
use Shift+N .
Default WordPad
If you often try to open a text file and you’re told the file is
“Too large to open with NotePad. Would you like to use
WordPad?” bypass NotePad and make WordPad your default. In
Windows Explorer, select View Folder Options (or just Options,
depending on your version of Windows) and File Types. Scroll
to Text Document, click Edit and then on Action:open. Click on
Edit and browse for c:\windows\write.exe or whatever path your
Windows system uses. Select that file, click OK, then back out.
Jack Teems (jteems@steamtunnels.net) publishes Neat Net
Tricks from Rapid City, SD. For more Neat Net Tricks, visit
NeatNetTricks.com.
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College-age Olympians
Event
Gymnastics
Shooting
Diving
Track & Field
Track & Field
Diving
Track & Field
Shooting
Cycling
Diving
Boxing
Fencing
Track & Field
Track & Field
Sex
F
F
M
F
M
F
F
F
F
F
M
M
M
M
Name
Jennifer Parilla
Thrine Kane
Troy Dumais
Mikele Barber
Gabe Jennings
Sara Reiling
Seilala Sua
Melissa Mulloy
Erin Veenstra-Mirabella
Jenny Keim
Clarence Vinson
Keeth Smart
Ja'Warren Hooker
Terrence Tramell
Date of Birth
1/9/81
5/24/81
1/21/80
10/4/80
1/25/79
9/18/79
2/25/78
3/16/78
5/18/78
6/17/78
7/10/78
7/29/78
9/24/78
11/23/78
School
Saddleback CC
Xavier
Texas
South Carolina
Stanford
Indiana
UCLA
U of Alaska/Fairbanks
UC/Colorado Springs
Miami
Northern Michigan
St. Johns
Washington
South Carolina
Web site
usa-gymnastics.org
xu.edu/athletics
big12sports.com
ncaachampionships.com
gostanford.fansonly.com
nbcolympics.com
uclabruins.fansonly.com
ncaa.org/champadmin/rifle
nbcolympics.com
nbcolympics.com
sportspage.com
nbcolympics.com
gohuskies.fansonly.com
trackwire.com