BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS / DAY 7 : SUMMER GAMES SPOTLIGHT : DE LA HOYA, MARQUEZ GET HELP FROM DUVA

Look out, Barcelona. Hurricane Lou has hit, and he is already making waves.

Lou Duva, the rotund trainer-manager who has his eye on U.S. boxers Oscar De La Hoya and Raul Marquez, was not in Spain for a full day before he corralled his two favorites for a meeting at the Barcelona apartment of De La Hoya’s father, Joel. According to Duva, he gave the younger De La Hoya and Marquez, both of whom won first-round bouts but ran into some trouble, a few pointers.

“I changed their styles a little bit,” Duva said. “You’ll see two different fighters out there next time.”

Duva also said his conglomerate--headed by him, son Dan Duva and money-man Shelly Finkel--had signed heavyweight Melvin Foster, who was favored to make the U.S. team as a 201-pounder but bombed out in the Olympic trials, losing to eventual winner Danell Nicholson in the semifinals. Duva said trainer George Benton has been working with Foster and already has made progress.

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.