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...Gorbachev at Geneva comes another U.S.-Soviet confrontation at the summit. This time, though, the summit sits at somewhere under 20 feet and the summiteers are the world's three best pole vaulters, Billy Olson, 27, and Joe Dial, 23, of the U.S., and the U.S.S.R.'s overarching Sergei Bubka, 22. Since the start of the year, the three have bettered one another's indoor records six times, and during the past fortnight they have gone height to height in U.S. indoor track-and-field meets from New York to California and back again. The visiting Bubka emerged...
...passed once more. But they both failed the next height, and therefore Quinon, 22, won. "I am young and learning," he said, "perhaps how to lose mostly, but how to win this time." Vigneron, a 19-ft. vaulter who lost his world record some time ago to Soviet Sergei Bubka, observed Quinon coolly. They are not close. "It was a very difficult competition," complained Vigneron, "due to the fact that Americans were rooting for Americans...
...Former U.C.L.A. Star Mike Tully, 27, performed the tallest vault by any American in history, 19 ft. ¾ in., and the first of his three subsequent attempts at a world-record 19 ft. 3¾ in. looked rattlingly close. Spectators were enjoying the thought of Soviet Record Holder Sergei Bubka opening his U.S.S.R. Today the following morning and receiving the news. But Tully came no closer...
Nonetheless, the absence from the Los Angeles Olympics of such Soviet world-record holders as Pole Vaulter Sergei Bubka, High Jumper Tamara Bykova and Swimmer Vladimir Salnikov, and of the East German athletes who have come close to dominating women's track and field, will greatly diminish the luster of many events (see following story). True, the rivalry will be broader than in the 1980 Olympics, which drew athletes from only 81 nations to Moscow. Attendance at Los Angeles might equal, or even surpass, the high of 122 countries represented at the 1972 Games in Munich?though much depends...