SUMMER GAMES SPOTLIGHT : BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS / DAY 13 : CHANGING NAME WAS SMART MOVE
<i> The Times</i>
At the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis, the heavyweight weightlifting winner was Oscar Osthoff of Milwaukee.
Since then, they have renamed Oscar’s event.
It used to be called the All-Around Dumbbell Contest.
Sportswriters, although invited, did not compete.
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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