BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS / DAY 9 : SUMMER GAMES SPOTLIGHT : AFTER FIVE MEDALS, IT’S MILLER TIME

And on the eighth day, Shannon Miller did not train. She rested . . . and savored the five Olympic gymnastics medals she earned through a week of pressure-packed competition.

Miller showed up at the gymnastics hall Sunday carrying her two silvers and three bronzes. She did a brief interview with the TripleCast crew. She watched the men complete their individual apparatus finals. She signed autographs.

Earlier in the day, Miller, at 73 pounds the lightest American Olympian, posed for pictures with weightlifter Mark Henry, who is 367 pounds and easily the heaviest man on the U.S. team.

“It was priceless,” said Miller’s coach, Steve Nunno. “You should have seen them walking together, holding hands.”

Tuesday, Miller will return home to Edmond, Okla., for a celebration and parade. And then, it’s back to the gym to prepare for a post-Olympic tour, which begins in Detroit on Aug. 21 and includes stops at Anaheim on Sept. 19 and Sacramento on Sept. 20.

Miller said she would like to compete through the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta.

Even if she doesn’t, commercial endorsements and appearance fees could be hers for the asking. Miller, represented by the ProServ management firm, doesn’t have a bubbly personality. But she will probably emerge from the Games as the top American medal winner.

“The magnitude of winning five Olympic medals will be a big element in Shannon’s life,” Nunno said. “She will set an example for other young gymnasts. She is the first top Olympian who will continue to compete.”

* 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.