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...women's gymnastics competition in Montreal is a three-way toss-up-with a half-twist, double back somersault, of course. Returning to defend her championship in what has become the glamour-girl event for Olympic TV audiences is Russia's Ludmilla Turishcheva, 23, the all-round competition gold-medalist at Munich, renowned for her controlled grace and classical repertory. The cameraman's favorite will be Turishcheva's celebrated teammate, Firefly Olga Korbut, 21, who flipped, tumbled, smiled and cried both herself and her sport into the spotlight four years ago as she flitted off with...
With 21 sports on the Olympic agenda, ABC could fill the time merely by televising athletes in action, an approach that would produce a yawn heard round the world. Says the network's planning director for the Games, Geoff Mason: "The Olympics are much more than two weeks of moving bodies. This is a convocation of mankind unique in the world, and we have to get that across. The participants are talented people, and to bring them out as people is as important as broadcasting the events." ABC will use interviews with nearly 70 athletes that were filmed during...
Those words proved especially relevant to the 1976 British Open from its opening round last Wednesday up to the 72nd and final hole, as unheralded 19 year old Spaniard Severiano Ballesteros upstaged the international field to finish tied for second only after succumbing to a withering closing round of 66 fired by America's Johnny Miller...
...Miller's rounds in the major tourneys over his career bear close resemblance to the fever chart of a malaria victim. In his U.S. Open victory he parlayed a disastrous third round 76 into a closing rush for 63, the lowest round to hit the books in either the British or U.S. championships...
Ballesteros supplied the Open with an international flavor lacking since Taiwanese pro Lu Liang Huan labeled as "Mr. Lu" became a gallery favorite in 1971 while finishing second. With an uncanny knack for getting the ball up and down from around the green, Ballesteros during his final round of 74 succeeded in "defying the percentages" as Miller later put it, repeatedly extricating himself after slapping shots into Birkdale's yawning bunkers and unyielding willow scrub rough...