Word: montreal
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...Queen Elizabeth II formally opened the ceremonies and the gas-fired torch flared into life at trackside in Montreal's ribbed, concrete Olympic Stadium last week, the XXI Olympiad had already produced one record. For the first time since the modern Games began in 1896, a host country had imposed its own foreign policy on the event. The result was some indecorous sports brinkmanship that forced the angry withdrawal of a clearly ill-treated team from the island Republic of China, further strained U.S.-Canadian relations and left much of the remaining world bothered about what a West German...
...good genes and hard slog will not be wasted at Montreal, with or without Bayi. The regret is that without Bayi, Walker may not be pressed to his ultimate under the glorious conditions that an Olympics provides...
Avilov, 28, concedes that his Montreal face-off with Jenner, 26, will be "the toughest one of my life." A lawyer and father of a three-year-old boy, Avilov credits himself with one big advantage: the maturity of an athlete who has already conquered gold fever. Says he: "When I was a kid I dreamed of becoming an Olympic champion in something, in anything. I mean literally dreamed. I could see that little piece of gold in my hand. Now I've got it. But Jenner, he's too anxious to grab that medal away from...
...swimming events in Montreal, none will attract more attention from the cognoscenti of the sport than the 100-meter backstroke. The defending champion is East Germany's Roland Matthes, 25, an old man among swimming's Wunderkinder who four years ago set the world record mark of 56.30 sec. For Matthes, a skinny (155 lbs.) six-footer, Montreal represents a last chance to add to his stockpile of seven Olympic medals, four of them gold, collected in 1968 and 1972. His challenger is John Naber, five years Matthes'junior, half a foot taller, 40 lbs. heavier...
...with training to make up for what was lost because of a May appendectomy, Matthes has been swimming six miles a day, which is his normal workout distance. He has been improving steadily, and expects his condition will peak at exactly the right time-the first week at Montreal...