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COLOR PHOTO: PHOTOGRAPH BY PETER READ MILLER Pulling His Weight Halil Mutlu, the Turkish delight of weightlifting, stagedone of the sport's most remarkable performances last Saturday when he broke three world records--in the snatch, the clean-and-jerk and total weight--en route to Olympic gold in the 123-pound class. With his lift of 369.27 pounds in the clean-and-jerk, the 122.6-pound Mutlu became only the third man to lift three times his weight.

COLOR PHOTO: PHOTOGRAPH BY SIMON BRUTY Give Her a Big Hand Anita Kulcsar of Hungary takes flight in a team handball match against Angola, which the Hungarians won 42-22.

COLOR PHOTO: PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT F. BUKATY/AP Don't Touche Me France's Laura Flessel-Colovic (left), who won the gold medal in women's epee at the 1996 Games, lunges at Russia's Tatiana Logounova during the bronze medal match in Sydney, which Flessel-Colovic won.