BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS / DAY 9 : SUMMER GAMES SPOTLIGHT : CUBAN HANGS WITH HOMEBOYS
It almost looks as if Felix Savon, Cuba’s world champion heavyweight boxer, is planning a defection to East Los Angeles.
During Saturday night’s fight program, he sat in the balcony on the edge of Oscar De La Hoya’s East L.A. cheering section, with De La Hoya’s uncles, cousins, father, sisters, brothers and friends.
“Felix and me, we’re buddies,” De La Hoya said after he won his bout Saturday.
“And he likes my Dad (Joel De La Hoya); he’s always asking me where he is. We mess around a lot in the village. He’s a very funny guy. He told us the other day he has a dog that can say, ‘Hi, Papa.’ He kept saying it was true, but I’m not sure we believe him.”
* 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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