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...through the grinding 10,000-meter race. Spurred on by the maddening memory of a foot operation that had kept him off the 1972 U.S. Olympic team, he won an emotional barefoot sprint down the straightaway to finish third and make the squad. Madeline Manning Jackson, a 1968 gold medalist, became at 28 the first American woman to do 800 meters in less than two minutes. Running "on the Lord's behalf," Salvation Army Worker Manning hopes to shave her time of 1:59.81 down to 1:52, four seconds faster than the world record...
Ethiopian fans will be rooting for Miruts Yifter, 27, a potential medalist in the 5,000-and 10,000-meter races-if he has managed to learn from his past mistakes. Yifter once misjudged the distance of an international 5,000-meter race and stopped, thinking he had crossed the finish line a winner when there was still another lap to go. Before a 5,000-meter heat at Munich, a language confusion kept him from reaching the starting line, and he was disqualified...
East Germany's Ruth Fuchs is the world-record holder (she set a new mark of 226 ft. 9 in. just last Saturday) and gold medalist at Munich, where Schmidt won a bronze. Although Fuchs, 29, has been having the usual youth-v. -age difficulties-Teammate Sabine Sebrowski recently beat her-she is at her peak for Montreal. The compactly built (5 ft. 6½ in., 155 Ibs.) blonde from the village of Egeln is determined to bring home the gold again, not for herself this time but "for the people who pay the taxes that enable...
...gymnastics competition in Montreal is a three-way toss-up-with a half-twist, double back somersault, of course. Returning to defend her championship in what has become the glamour-girl event for Olympic TV audiences is Russia's Ludmilla Turishcheva, 23, the all-round competition gold-medalist at Munich, renowned for her controlled grace and classical repertory. The cameraman's favorite will be Turishcheva's celebrated teammate, Firefly Olga Korbut, 21, who flipped, tumbled, smiled and cried both herself and her sport into the spotlight four years ago as she flitted off with two gold medals...
Alex Vik suffered from the duck hooks all day and tied Spence Fitzgibbons at 81. Vik, who has been medalist in most of the matches, quick hooked five times and consequently only hit 11 greens on his way to four double-bogeys. "I have never hooked the ball. I stayed up last night writing a paper and I'm right-handed. I think that had something to do with my round," Vik said. Vik also suffered from playing sloppily around the greens as well as from not hitting a straight drive until the 18th...