BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS : U.S. HAS WORLD IN ITS SIGHTS

One of the U.S. Olympic coaches, Lloyd Woodhouse, was discussing how his team recently became world champions when he said: “When we walk in the door now, we’re looked at with respect.”

Woodhouse coaches the U.S. shotgun team.

Concerning the competition for shooting medals, Woodhouse said: “The Germans and Russians aren’t shooting as well as they used to.

“I said to one of them: ‘What’s the problem?’

“He said: ‘We have to work now.’

“And I said: ‘Welcome to the real world.’ ”

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.