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...same time, the Soviet press eased up on denunciations of the boycott-though visitors who agree that the competition has not been hurt were widely quoted. Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat, who was treated as an honored guest despite his refusal eight years ago to condemn the Arab terrorists in Munich, observed in a television interview: "The crowded stands are testimony to the fact that no blackmail and no boycott have been able to disrupt the Moscow Olympics...
...gymnastics-where, before the boycott, American heartthrobs like Kurt Thomas and Bart Connor were expected to do especially well-the show was stolen by Alexander Ditiatin, 22. The handsome Soviet leaped and vaulted to a total of eight medals, the most won by an individual since the modern Games began in 1896. The previous record was held by U.S. Swimmer Mark Spitz, who won seven medals in 1972, and by Ditiatin's teammate Nikolai Andrianov, who won seven gymnastics prizes at the 1976 Olympics. Andrianov, making something of a comeback at the relatively advanced age of 27, picked...
Another glamour competition, men's swimming and diving, was ravaged by the U.S. boycott. Four years ago the U.S. swimmers won twelve of the 13 gold medals awarded, along with ten silver and five bronze; they added one gold and one silver in diving. There is so much depth in the American ranks that some swimming experts feel the summer's best meet is not the one in Moscow but the U.S. championships in Irvine, Calif., this week. Indeed, the Irvine event has become a shadow Olympics, an opportunity for the U.S. mermen to top the winning times...
...sport, and in combining the two he has become a professional Walter Mitty, as such books as Out of My League and Paper Lion attest. His role this time was not to play but to watch, to go to the Moscow Olympics as that rara avis, given the U.S. boycott, an American tourist at the Games...
...problem," a friend of mine said just before I left for Moscow, "is what country-with the U.S. out because of the boycott-you're going to root...