SUMMER GAMES SPOTLIGHT : BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS / DAY 16 : NOT ENOUGH SMOG FOR HIM

Now they are complaining about the good conditions.

Part of the race plan for American marathoner Steve Spence was to capitalize on what he was sure would be horrible race conditions.

Because of a morning rainstorm, the temperature for Sunday’s race wasn’t as high as for the women’s, which was held more than a week ago.

Spence said it threw him off.

“The pollution wasn’t as bad as I’d hoped it would be,” he said. “And it wasn’t as hot. I think we got the best day. My philosophy was, the hotter the better. Too bad.”

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.