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...Barefoot Budd...
...intends to prove that she is the world's fastest woman distance runner. Until last week, though, the biggest challenge to Zola Budd's determined trek toward an Olympic gold medal seemed more political than athletic. In March, the native South African abruptly left her homeland, which is banned from the Olympics, and picked up a quickie British citizenship, thanks to her English-born grandfather. Eyebrows were raised, feathers were ruffled, backs were got up. Would her hop, skip and sidestep work? The British Olympic Association, after consulting with International Olympic Committee officials, ruled last week that...
...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 on whether the black African nations boycott again (they are incensed because Zola Budd, a fleet middle-distance runner and native South African, may be allowed to compete as a British citizen). But, like the Soviet athletes who garnered the superficially staggering total of 197 gold, silver or bronze medals in the 1980 Summer Olympics, the winners in Los Angeles will be unable to boast that...
Some South African athletes, white and black, have solved the dilemma by competing for other countries. Olympic Hopeful Sydney Maree, for instance, will become a U.S. citizen next week; the Villanova track star married an American 3½ years ago. Budd took a different course. Her father Frank is the grandson of an Englishman, entitling her to British citizenship. As part of a secret deal struck by Frank Budd, Labuschagne and London's Daily Mail, the family was flown to England last month. For a reported $300,000 trust fund and living expenses, the Mail has exclusive rights...
Many debate the point. Noting that Budd got her citizenship papers in a matter of weeks while others have been waiting up to two years, the Times of London observed primly that in England "queue jumping is frowned upon." There are other critics. After setting a British junior record against an undistinguished field last week, Budd was pressured to withdraw from a tune-up race last Saturday in Sussex because officials said they feared antiapartheid demonstrators. Jane Furniss, England's No. 2 middle-distance runner, says of her new competitor: "When our flag goes up and they play...