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WORLD CUP USA ’94 / THE FIRST ROUND : Spotlight : APPARENTLY, IT’S HOTTER FOR SOME THAN OTHERS

By HELENE ELLIOTT

Belgian press officer Guido de Windt didn’t seem to be amused by midfielder Lorenzo Staelens’ inability to cope with the high humidity and searing heat that have blanketed central Florida since the Belgian team arrived.

“He is the only player of 22 who can’t get used to it,” De Windt said.

If it’s exceptionally hot today, Staelens probably won’t start. “(Coach Van Himst) wants to start with a team that’s 100% OK,” De Windt said. “If he’s not 100% OK and he has to come out at the half, what good is that?”

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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