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...world?will focus on the track and field events. Here the U.S., which was universally conceded supremacy in swimming before the Games began, will face its most severe tests. The biggest single event will be the rematch in the 1,500-meter run between Kansas' erratic, enigmatic Jim Ryun and Kipchoge Keino, the Kenyan who defeated Ryun four years ago for a gold medal in the rarefied atmosphere of Mexico City. Ryun will find Munich more to his lungs' liking. But he must also contend with Keino's "rabbit," Fellow Kenyan Mike Boit, who will probably set a deadly pace...
Another glamour event of track and field is the 1,500-meter run. If recent form prevails, the final should bring about a rematch between the duelists of Mexico, Gold Medalist Kipchoge Keino of Kenya and runner-up Jim Ryun of the U.S. Keino, despite an attack of malaria, recently ran the fastest 1,500 of the year, 3:36.8. Ryun, who has performed erratically for more than 18 months, seems to be reaching his peak once again. Even so, it may not be a two-man race. Kenya has another prospect in Mike Boit, who started running the distance...
...Ryun finished fourth in the 800 meter run finals at the United States Men's Olympic Track and Field Trials in Eugene, Oregon Saturday, and thus failed to qualify to run that event at the Games in Munich later this summer. Dave Wottle, a Bowling Green junior, tied the world record of 1:44-3 in winning the race. Rick Wohlhuter of Illinois was second at 1:45.0, Ken Swenson was third at 1:45.1, while Ryun finished an agonizing yard back of a place on the team...
Later this week, Ryun plans to attempt to qualify for the 1500 meters, and he will be running against Wottle once more...
...Spengler also had a good day. He ran the mile in 4:10.5. Among his opponents in that race was Marty Liquori, who beat Jim Ryun in the Martin Luther King games several weeks ago with a time of 3:54.4. He didn't face the same kind of competition Saturday and won the mile...