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...other black African countries. One week to the day before the Olympic torch was to be borne into Montreal's stunning $700 million stadium, the Games seemed to teeter on the brink of breakup. C.K. Yang, coach of the Taiwan track team and silver-medal winner in the decathlon (1960), at least put the matter in a hopeful perspective. Said he: "It has been like this for many, many Olympics. I always cross my fingers and they always solve the problems...
Rafer Johnson, LL.D., Olympic decathlon champion. For introducing to thousands of handicapped young people the exhilaration of competition and the joy of achievement...
Which was exactly the point. Franco and eleven other "superstars" were competing last week in the finals of a bastardized decathlon. No one is allowed to play in his own specialty. The rewards: a $1,000 guarantee, a shot at $122,000 in prize money and some laughs in the Florida sunshine. Filmed and broadcast by ABC, the series has shot to the top of the Sunday afternoon ratings this winter...
Equally pointless is Miloš Forman's cutting between decathlon competitors and various musical activities that he found in and around the Games, from Bavarian bell ringing to a performance of Beethoven's Ninth. The decathlon is something more than the hot pursuit of exhaustion, and so, perhaps, is bell ringing, if that is where one's heart lies. As for John Schlesinger's back-and-forthing between a losing British marathon competitor and the murder of the eleven Israeli athletes by Arab terrorists, it is a tasteless last-minute paste...
...named Jamie Nelson for saying that a certain breakfast cereal had helped her recover from a pulled muscle. The A.A.U. apparently figured that Jamie could afford the three-year suspension since she was only five at the time. "The athlete is so controlled by artificial restrictions," says 1968 Olympic Decathlon Champion Bill Toomey, "that he has to carry around a book just to know where he can compete and where...