BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS / DAY 9 : SUMMER GAMES SPOTLIGHT : WHO HAS 1492?

Yes, Spain did send us Christopher Columbus. Yes, it is the 500th anniversary of his discovery of the New World.

Janeene Vickers of Pomona is feeling patriotic, too.

She is competing in the 400-meter hurdles in her USA track uniform, which is red, white and blue. She also is wearing her official entry number:

1776.

* 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.