BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS : SUMMER GAMES SPOTLIGHT : MONEY STILL CAN’T BUY A GOLD MEDAL

The Prince of Bourbon is at the helm of the Spanish yacht. Mercedes-Benz sponsors the Germans. The Bank of Montreal pays the freight for the Canadians.

There are big boats and even bigger bucks bobbing around the harbor adjacent to the athletes’ village at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

And then, you’ve got the Americans. Team Exxon. The best crew and best Soling class sailing campaign that $450,000 can buy.

“Money alone won’t win you a gold,” said Jim Brady, the bowman from Annapolis, Md. “Everyone has an equal opportunity to win.”

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.