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...action that would yank from the Games one of sport's prestige athletes, Filbert Bayi, who holds the world record for 1,500 meters. Possible too was similar action by other black African countries. One week to the day before the Olympic torch was to be borne into Montreal's stunning $700 million stadium, the Games seemed to teeter on the brink of breakup. C.K. Yang, coach of the Taiwan track team and silver-medal winner in the decathlon (1960), at least put the matter in a hopeful perspective. Said he: "It has been like this for many...
When the heralds fanned out through ancient Greece to announce the forthcoming Games at Olympia (see BOOKS), they carried with them the proclamation of a sacred truce that extended for at least a month before and after the Olympics. Since the Games of the XXI Olympiad in Montreal have already become an arena of international acrimony second only to that other supposed citadel of world harmony, the United Nations, the time is ripe for a modern equivalent, however profane, of the sacred truce...
...spirit of the athletes may take a beating," says Montreal Olympic Official William Little, "but to protect them, we are going to have to restrict their freedom of movement quite a bit." The tab for "supervision" at Montreal will exceed $100 million-more than $14,000 per athlete-making this the most expensive security operation in history. The police and military force totals 16,000, the largest armed body that Canada has mobilized since World...
There was ample evidence last week that the Montreal Olympics would have its share of such moments. Hurdler Willie Davenport, 33, who was advised never to run again after he was carried off the field a year ago with a ruptured tendon in his knee, came to the U.S. trials in Eugene, Ore., spiritually and surgically renewed and won a place on his fourth Olympic team. Long Distance Runner Garry Bjorklund, 25, lost a shoe halfway through the grinding 10,000-meter race. Spurred on by the maddening memory of a foot operation that had kept...
Once a rarity, a woman sportswriter has become a fixture at a majority of major U.S. dailies. Of the 180 or so American print journalists accredited to this month's Montreal Olympics, about a dozen are women-not many, but possibly ten more than were at Munich in 1972. Women sportswriters, used to be relegated to covering women's basketball, field hockey and sport fashions, but now work such brawny beats as football and boxing. Indeed, the demand for women writers may be outstripping the supply. Says Blackie Sherrod, sports editor of the Dallas Times-Herald: "I wish...