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...beat Vidmar was Japan's Koji Gushiken, who won the gold with a performance as gritty as it was fine. At 27, he had come to Los Angeles to cap his career, but his chances seemed fatally damaged when he fell from the pommel horse during the second day of competition and scored 9.45. But after that debacle he said, "I did not come here to fail." And so he did not. Gushiken is a gymnast of another generation, noted less for the daring supertrick than for the traditional virtues of technical mastery and elegant style. He relentlessly kept...
...individual competition, Sigurd Wilbanks placed third on the pommel horse while Captain Paul Mehlman nabbed third place on both the vault and floor exercises...
...competition, a feat he accomplished on the rings, probably the most difficult gymnastic event. He had hardly left the floor when Alexander Tkachov of the U.S.S.R. turned in a 10 on the horizontal bar. Then Zoltan Magyar of Hungary, a gold medalist at Montreal, received a 10 on the pommel horse. Finally, a Bulgarian, Stoyan Deltchev, 21, scored the fourth 10 of the day, on the rings. Male gymnasts took the high marks as a sign that their sport was at last approaching the kind of perfection known in women's gymnastics...
...excel in the six individual events, showing rare versatility for an American. Thomas also possesses a much coveted intangible: the ability to electrify his audience. One especially rousing maneuver, known internationally as the "Thomas flare," is a flashy series of wide-swinging leg moves performed on the pommel horse and in the floor exercise. To win the Olympics, Thomas will have to beat the Japanese, who are already studying his techniques and who marvel at his showmanship. Indeed, Masahide Ota, a top Japanese gymnastics official, admits he is urging his stars "to be as original as Kurt...
...with the land. The land is unrelenting. He is unrelenting." Johnson mounted a frisky filly and helped cut calves from the herd. An old cowhand, watching, said: "That fella's been in the saddle afore." Just then the pony skittered, Lyndon lost a stirrup and grabbed for the pommel. The old fellow added with a twinkle: ". . . but not fer some time...