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Apart from the payola controversy, the big news of the week was the almost monotonous parade of Americans to the victory pedestal. There were elev en boxing weight classes in Mexico City, and U.S. boxers won medals in seven of them. In yachting. New Orleans' Buddy Friedrichs and San Diego's Lowell North won gold medals. In shooting, Nebraska's Gary Anderson, a 29-year-old Army lieutenant, scored 1,157 out of a possible 1,200 points to win the free-rifle competition and break his own world record. Competing in his fourth Olympics, Connecticut...
...loose. With young Haywood playing like a dervish, popping in baskets and blocking shots, the U.S. put the game out of reach. By a score of 65-50, the team that was thought to be the weakest the U.S. had ever fielded won America's seventh straight gold medal in Olympic basketball...
...Olympic team. "The greatest competitive Olympics in history," as U.S. Track Coach Payton Jordan called them, proved to be a showcase for the multifarious talents of an inspired U.S. squad bent on cornering all the gold in Mexico City-and the silver and bronze as well. The medal score told the story: by week's end, with only a handful of events still to go, the U.S. had collected 42 gold, 26 silver and 30 bronze for a total of 98 medals, compared with Runner-up Russia's 65, only 21 of which were gold...
...time the rhubarb involved alleged under-the-table payments to U.S. and foreign athletes by rival German track-shoe manufacturers. Rumor piled on rumor: stories told of payoffs ranging as high as $6,500; officials were said to have canceled checks to prove that bribes were paid; several U.S. medal-winners were reported guilty. But rumors the stories remained after the U.S. Olympic Committee investigated and announced that it could find "nothing to substantiate" them...
Australia's Mike Wenden surprised everyone by splashing to victory in both the 100-meter and 200-meter sprints. And Felipe Munoz, an unsung, 17-year-old prep-schooler from Mexico City, gave the host nation its first gold medal of the Games when he edged out Russia's world record holder, Vladimir Kosinsky, in the 200-meter breaststroke. Yet Debbie Meyer, a 16-year-old from Sacramento, Calif., singlehandedly balanced out those losses by winning the women's 200-meter, 400-meter and 800-meter freestyles, despite a strained ankle and a bad case...