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BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS / DAY 9 : SUMMER GAMES SPOTLIGHT : HOUSECLEANING MAY BE CULPRIT

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<i> The Times</i>

Lost somewhere in the discussion over what has happened to the U.S. men’s volleyball team, winner of the last two Olympic gold medals but struggling somewhat until Saturday’s three-game sweep of France, is Bryan Ivie.

Ivie, a 6-foot-7 middle blocker from Manhattan Beach and USC, was the only non-’88 Olympian in this year’s starting lineup, but he was certainly no fuzzy-faced rookie. To many--even with veterans such as Steve Timmons, Jeff Stork and Doug Partie around--Ivie was the star-to-be. Or right now.

But late in the second game of the opening match against Japan, Ivie hurt his right knee, and since then he has sat on the bench with a tight black wrap on the injury. The diagnosis is torn cartilage.

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And the moment Ivie felt the first stab of pain was not in the heat of action. It was when he straightened up after bending over to wipe off a wet spot on the floor while play was stopped.

* 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.

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