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...chief Soviet track coach, Gavriil Korobkov, had an explanation, too. The Americans, he said were overconfident after the decisive U.S. victory in the 1964 dual meet and the poor Soviet performances in the Tokyo Olympics that followed. There was something to that. In Kiev, the U.S. men's sprint relay team had practiced passing the baton for only two hours prior to the meet. Not surprisingly, it bobbled an exchange in the race and was disqualified...
...This is the strongest, most experienced team I have ever had," said Russian Coach Gavriil Korobkov, as he marched his athletes into Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Two days later, the strongest, most experienced flew home again-suffering from an acute dose of shellac. The U.S. men, who barely edged the Russians in 1963, trampled them this time by 139 to 97, winning 16 of 22 events, sweeping an incredible first and second in ten events, and capturing all twelve running races. The U.S. girls, who have always been blitzed by the Russians, won four of ten events, were actually leading...
...Fleeing Bronze Horses. Others, less widely known but no less vehemently damned, were Vissarion Shebalin, Gavriil Popov, Nikolai Myaskovsky and Vano Muradeli. Like the Soviet artists and writers condemned by the Committee in recent months, they were charged with falling for pernicious Western glitter. The verdict of the Committee, signed by the purge-master of arts, Andrei Zhdanov: "[Their works] smell strongly of the modern bourgeois music of Europe and America which reflect the marazm [wasting away] of bourgeois culture...
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