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Article: A FRESH START AT 19\JENNIFER CAPRIATI TRYING TO PICK UP PIECES AS SHE PREPARES FOR PARIS OPEN.(SPORTS)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- February 7, 1996
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Byline: GWEN KNAPP SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE
Could it really have been 1992 when we last saw Jennifer Capriati really smile? She was beaming then, as she accepted the Olympic gold in Barcelona. She was 16, happy and a tennis champion - characteristics that her life and career seemed to define as incompatible.
"Wow," she said back then, a jaded athlete remembering what it was to play a game, to be a teenager. "This is so cool."
She said she loved eating in the cafeteria at the Olympic village with the Bulgarians and going to the track and field events just like a fan.
The Dream Team was in Barcelona, too, ...