THE PASTY LOOK IS OUT

By BILL DWYRE

July 22, 1996 12 AM PT

Gymnast Andreas Wecker leaves nothing to chance when it comes to pleasing the judges.

Asked why he always seems to be tanner than his teammates, Wecker said he uses a tanning bed once a week for 30 minutes.

“I have my own tanning bed at home,” he said. “It certainly has an aesthetic effect if you’re nicely tanned out there than if you’re all white.”

The German had the highest score Saturday in the first round of the men’s team compulsory competition. He scored a 57.3 as Germany scored a first-round high of 282.147.

Wecker won a silver medal and two bronzes in Barcelona, and placed fourth in the all-around.

Olympics

Bill Dwyre

Bill Dwyre was a three-times-weekly sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times from 2006-15. Before that, he was sports editor of the paper for 25 years. Dwyre was named national editor of the year by the National Press Foundation in 1985 for the paper’s coverage of the ’84 Olympics and winner of the Red Smith Award in 1996 by the Associated Press Sports Editors for sustained excellence in sports journalism. He was sports editor of the Milwaukee Journal from 1973 to 1981, when he joined The Times. Dwyre was named National Headliner Award winner in 1985, sportswriter of the year in Wisconsin in 1980 and sportswriter of the year in California in 2009.

THE PASTY LOOK IS OUT

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