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...first part of their long-awaited showdown finally took place last Saturday in the cool evening air of Moscow's Lenin Stadium. In something of an upset, Ovett roared past Nikolai Kirov of the Soviet Union in the final curve, held off Coe in the stretch, and won the gold medal in the 800 meters. The winning time of 1:45.4 was a full 3 sec. slower than Coe's world record. That pace favored Ovett's driving, elbowing style. "I'm a competitor," he said beforehand. "I like to beat the other people...
...Italian sprinter, run the 100 meters, I'd go crazy," he said. "I guess I'd watch Pietro. I'd give up any other track event for the Bolshoi, but not the 100 meters." The other priority on his list was to take a look at Lenin in his tomb. "After all," he said, "we can't see George Washington...
...books opened and the officials settle down to read, often one looking over the other's shoulder, searching for key words to pop out, since their ability to read English is limited. A copy of Edmund Wilson's To the Finland Station, with its uncompromising portrait of Lenin, was flipped through without incident, but a yellow legal pad on which I had written "KGB -neat shoes"-a reference to being able to spot a secret-service agent by his spruced-up footwear-caused a considerable stir. The officials studied the pad for five minutes...
...three hours the capacity crowd of 103,000 at Moscow's Lenin Stadium gazed in wonder at the gorgeous pageantry: a replica of a Greek chariot circling the track, dance troupes, precision ribbon twirlers, and a torchbearer who reached the top of the stadium by climbing a human staircase formed by some 500 soldiers holding wooden panels above their heads with the aid of sturdy braces. There was even a flash-card crew of 2,000 soldiers spelling out slogans like O SPORT, YOU ARE PEACE, HAPPINESS...
...Soviets have banned TV crews from Red Square, presumably to prevent them from recording any anti-Soviet demonstrations, and denied them access to Lenin Stadium during a rehearsal of opening ceremonies. A Frenchman who tried to film the Olympic Press Center, six blocks from the Kremlin, was prevented from doing so by local militiamen; journalists have also been barred from hotels where foreign tourists are staying. The Soviets even refused to allow the U.S. Ambassador to deliver his traditional Fourth of July speech and the French Ambassador to make his traditional Bastille Day speech, because both contained references to Afghanistan...