BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS / DAY 7 : SUMMER GAMES SPOTLIGHT : CRASH LANDING

Silver medalist Jason Morris had a bumpy ride to the first medal won by any American in judo’s half-middleweight class.

He fought his way through a particularly difficult draw, defeating four tough opponents. In the final, Morris, 25, of Scotia, N.Y., was thrown by Japan’s Hidehilo Yoshida.

How did he assess the match?

“I flew Air Japan,” Morris said.

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.