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...even for those unschooled in the mores of the sport, there was much to be excited about, including potential gold medalist France's 2-1 thriller over Norway, and Canada's rugged 3-1 victory over Cameroon Friday night to make it through to the quarter finals on the West Coast...
Harvard has its first medalist in the 1984 Olympic Games...
...boat mounted a valiant last-minute charge but was unable to catch gold medalist Canada which won by a mere 0.42 seconds...
...ferocious game of volleyball until a professor of physical education noticed that the young man had the body of a discus thrower: long arms and legs, bulk (286 Ibs.) and strength (a chest circumference of 51 in.). These raw materials remain uncoached; Egypt, which has not had an Olympic medalist since 1960, spends little on developing its amateur athletes. Says Neguib: "I do not know how to get the maximum power from my body. My movements are still rough." His full-time job as a police officer in Cairo limits his daily workout to spare time. Before the Soviet-bloc...
Although he is counted as a good prospect for a bronze medal, he is convincing when he says that competing, not winning, is his reward. Merely to be in the same race with the great Finnish sculler Pertti Karppinen, gold medalist in 1980 and the favorite this year, justifies all the training, says Biglow. Athletics for money, as a business? Biglow finds the concept distasteful. But, he knows, his case is special...