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...open sea, amid chilling waves as high as 12 ft. Said Hajos, in one of the franker Olympic victory statements: "My will to live completely overcame my desire to win." This year an American, an Australian and an East German all have a chance to emerge from the magnificent Munich pool as the greatest star of the entire 1972 Games...
...American Mark Spitz, Munich represents a second chance at superstardom. At 18 he entered the Mexico Games with two world records under his belt and brash predictions that he would win six gold medals. When he finished up with two gold, one silver and one bronze-a tidy tally for almost any other competitor-he felt "downright depressed." In truth, he had not swum his best. But Spitz seems to have regained confidence without cockiness. Though he now holds three world records in freestyle and butterfly, Spitz may not compete in the full range of individual and relay events...
...sports-crazed East Germany, where top athletes receive cash bonuses (especially when they beat West Germans), there is no greater hero these days than Roland Matthes, 21. He took two Olympic gold medals at Mexico and could pick up as many as five more at Munich, depending on how many events he enters. Lean, lithe Matthes is as sure as any Olympic competitor of winning his specialties-the 100-meter and 200-meter backstroke, in which he has been the world record holder for the past four years. Like Shane Gould, Matthes has a distinctive kick; almost twice...
Track and field will dominate the second part of the Munich program. To the winner of the men's 100-meter dash traditionally goes the title of "world's fastest human." Early this year, when U.S. sprinters were rising and falling like imperfect souffles, it looked as if the title might go to a Russian for the first time. Valery Borzov, from the little Ukrainian town of Novaya Kakhovka, had beaten every international runner to face him in three seasons. If anyone could conquer him by the time the Games began, it seemed it might be the "Southern...
...twice by Bob Seagren of the U.S. (TIME, June 19), a fledgling actor who hopes for a movie career. Seagren has cleared a world record height of 18 ft. 5½ in. Someone, he says, perhaps he himself, will do 19 ft. this year. It might happen at Munich...