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Dietz also thinks the Olympic boycott hurt an athlete like Susan the most: "Considering how much she came on last year, it's not inconceivable that she could've taken it all at Moscow," he speculates...
...breast in Munich at the 1972 games and the 100 in 1976, while lowering his own world record to 1:03.11. the veteran Santa Clara Swim Club member missed a chance to become the only swimmer ever to earn gold medals in three Olympics, when the U.S. chose to boycott...
...successful season of collegiate basketball, Tauna took a year off from school to prepare for the Olympics. After moving to Philadelphia to swim once again with Haines, who by then had gone to Foxcatcher Swim Club, she saw her year go down the drain when the U.S. decided to boycott the Moscow games...
...major force behind the new boycott is the Supreme Council for Sport in Africa, a loose association of sports officials in Third World nations. Three months ago, the group distributed the names of 159 athletes from 16 nations who have competed in South Africa from September to December of 1980-and urged countries to ban them. The movement has since been endorsed by a number of nations and international organizations, including the U.N. Special Committee Against Apartheid. The blacklist includes U.S. Tennis Players Stan Smith, Pat DuPre and Bob Lutz, World Boxing Association Heavyweight Champion Mike Weaver, British Golfer Nick...
Ironically, the boycott comes at a time when South Africa has begun to make progress toward desegregating its sports. Blacks are still excluded from many teams and facilities. Yet an investigative group from the British Sports Council concluded that fencing, karate, judo and track and field in South Africa are so integrated that participants should be allowed to compete internationally. The same has been said of soccer, and a French team of inquiry felt likewise about boxing. Though South Africa's national pastime, rugby, remains aggressively white, the Springboks squad now has one mulatto player. However admirable the blacklist...