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...same afternoon, Tanzania announced that it was boycotting the Games as a gesture against apartheid (see following story), an action that would yank from the Games one of sport's prestige athletes, Filbert Bayi, who holds the world record for 1,500 meters. Possible too was similar action by 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...
...over, the limelight is theirs. Five sets of such athletes, both blessed and cursed with each other's achievements, are profiled in the following pages. Four are expected to bring the Olympics moments of high drama. But barring a surprise reversal by Tanzania, the long-awaited meeting of Filbert Bayi and New Zealand's John Walker has been forced offstage by politics. For the moment, at least, Bayi v. Walker seems more symbolic of the '76 Olympics than all the rest...
...fields in the Olympics. Leading it are Mike Boit, winner of 15 out of 17 major races last year; Yugoslavia's Luciano Susanj, who beat Wohlhuter four times in '75 and John Walker, who is convinced his chances for two golds are good. Another entry was, alas, Filbert Bayi. And not last in the group, or least, but maybe first -Wohlhuter...
Politics and providence permitting, one of the most memorable foot races of modern times would have been the 1,500-meter final on Saturday, July 31, the last full day of the Olympics. Tanzania's Filbert Bayi, the world record holder in the 1,500 (3:32.2), was expected to confront New Zealand's John Walker, the fastest man ever to run the slightly longer-by 120 yds.-mile (3:49.4). Walker's best time in the 1,500 is only a hairbreadth two-tenths of a second off Bayi's record, set in the Commonwealth...
When Tanzanian Miler Filbert Bayi first appeared in international meets three years ago, other runners viewed his style with disdain. Instead of pacing himself and saving a kick for the last quarter-mile, Bayi sprinted from the gun. His opponents, recalls Hurdler Tom Hill, "used to sit back at their old pace and say, 'Wow, this fool is going to drop dead on the third lap.' " Trouble was, Bayi never did. He began to make a habit of leaving astonished stars behind him. Last year at the Commonwealth Games in New Zealand, Bayi atomized Jim Ryun...