SUMMER GAMES SPOTLIGHT : BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS : AS USUAL, MOM WAITS

You think parents get to see their youngsters at the Olympics? Not a chance. Marge Diebel was waiting for her son, gold medalist Nelson, for nearly two hours after his race.

“NBC is all around him. I don’t know when he’ll get out,” she said as she stood in a dirt parking lot next to the Picorel Pool. “Once Nels gets talking, he’s hard to get to stop.”

This a daily roundup of Olympic-related items from reporters in Barcelona from the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Baltimore Sun and Hartford Courant, all Times-Mirror newspapers.