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...alpiners had their first solid all-around weekend, finishing sixth in the giant slalom event and fourth in the slalom, and amassing 87 of Harvard's 106 point total. But the nordic events, especially the cross-country, proved to be big disappointments, coach Dave Hubbard said yesterday...
...four freshmen starters, Stefi Baum has been the biggest surprise, showing a mastery at her midfield position on both defense and attack, something very few freshmen can do, Field said yesterday. Her all-around play was one of the keys to the victory in Hanover...
...second base, the advantage has to go to the Yanks. Willie Randolph displayed his great all-around skills, out-classing Joe Morgan with a hefty .270 average (compared to a piddling .320 for Morgan...
...point Korbut burst into tears, at another ostentatiously iced an ailing ankle ("Every athlete always has something that hurts. If you don't, that's when you should start to worry"). When the stadium rocked with applause after Comaneci received her fourth 10 during the all-around individual competition, Olga slowly but pointedly walked halfway around the Forum to the water fountain. Sometimes brilliant, sometimes bungling (one night she even fell off the balance beam), Korbut still held the crowd. And when her last exercise of the Olympics ended (a sparkling 9.90 on the beam that earned...
Before accepting her bronze in the all-around, she bestowed a queenly kiss on the two youngsters who had upstaged but not outclassed her, Comaneci and a bright new Russian face, Nelli Kim, 18. Daughter of a Korean, Kim won two 10s herself from the judges, one in her specialty, the vault, and one in the floor exercise. She took two individual gold medals and one silver, and firmly established herself as the personable, expressive new star of Russian gymnastics...