All three have
good chances for medals, particularly Marbley, who has a record of 189 and 5, a tattoo on his left forearm depicting a skunk sniffing a flower («That's me,» he says, «the little stinker») and owns 24 medallions, 40 pairs of gaudy slacks and 12 pairs of shoes.
Vast underdogs to the Soviet team, who dominated the sport
for two decades, no one figured that the team would have a
chance to even make the
medal rounds, much less beat the
best of the
best.