SUMMER GAMES SPOTLIGHT : BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS : GENTLY INFRINGING

Women’s judo is a medal sport for the first time. Competitors range in size from 106-pound teen-ager Valerie Lafon of San Diego to 210-pound Collen Rosensteel of Colorado Springs, Colo.

The word judo, of Japanese origin, means “gentleness” or “giving way.”

According to the rules, negative scores can be received for hansoku-make (“very grave infringements”), keikoku (“grave infringements”), chui (“serious infringements”) and shido (“slight infringements”), none of which presumably are awarded for gentleness.

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