SUMMER GAMES SPOTLIGHT : BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS / DAY 13 : CHANGING NAME WAS SMART MOVE

At the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis, the heavyweight weightlifting winner was Oscar Osthoff of Milwaukee.

Since then, they have renamed Oscar’s event.

It used to be called the All-Around Dumbbell Contest.

Sportswriters, although invited, did not compete.

This a daily roundup of Olympic-related items from reporters in Barcelona from the Los Angeles Times, Newsday and Baltimore Sun, all Times-Mirror newspapers.