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...field." But she came on strong later as "Swivel Hips Schreiber," star running back on the girls' flag football team at Rice University. Her 50-yard near-touchdown run (she slipped three yards from the goal line) made the front page of the Houston Chronicle. In Montreal last week, Schreiber tested her speed against the former U.S. Olympic gold medalist Wyomia Tyus; after an interview, they were caught in a sudden downpour and had to race for cover. Who won? This time Schreiber is keeping the results "a deep dark secret...
...sliver of a bar with a thunk so solid it reverberates; up, backward again, a second blind flip, and a landing. No 747 ever set itself down on a two-mile runway with more assurance or aplomb. She leaps, twists, spins, and the 18,000 people in Montreal's Forum realize that they are witnessing an exhibition of individual achievement that is truly Olympian. The judges agree. Their verdict on Nadia Comaneci, 14, of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Rumania: she is perfect...
...gymnast been judged perfect. But within five days last week Comaneci earned the 10.00 mark seven times. Yet never before have the Olympics seemed less perfect. Plagued first by the bitter international dispute over the participation of Taiwan, then beset by the withdrawal of African and Arab countries, the Montreal Olympics have seen what could prove to be irreparable damage (see box) to the notion that nations that play together stay together...
...countries are fearful of its implications. For one thing, the 1980 Olympic Games are scheduled to take place in Moscow, and there is concern that the Soviet Union will take similar discriminatory action against athletes from Israel and West Germany. As if that were not enough to make the Montreal Games one of the gloomier landmarks in Olympic history, a further explosive political issue cast a pall over the event. Led by Tanzania, 18 Black African countries made good on their threat to boycott Montreal, along with five Arab neighbors. Their complaint was the I.O.C. refusal to ban New Zealand...
Should she be troubled by a pea under her mattress-like the sensitive maiden in the fairy tale-Princess Anne of England, 25, will probably have to remove it herself, at least while she resides in the Olympic Village at Bromont, Quebec, 45 miles from Montreal. As one of the 21 members of Britain's equestrian team, Anne requested that she receive no special treatment, and she isn't getting any. She lives in a three-bedroom apartment with six other athletes, including her husband, Captain Mark Phillips, an alternate member of the team; she stands on line...