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...could conceivably salute as many victories as The Star-Spangled Banner or Gitnn Sovietskogo Soyuza. Last summer, in fact, the steadily improving East Germans bested the rest of Europe, including the Soviet Union, in track and field, swimming and rowing. At the winter Olympic Games in Sapporo last February, they won more medals than any nation except Russia, which had twice as many competitors...
Petkevich who took a full year leave of absence to prepare for last month's Olympic Games in Sapporo made the announcement last Saturday on ABC's "Wide World of Sports" after he had finished his amateur skating career with a superb free-skating performance at the World Championships in Calgary, Alberta, Canada...
Skiing's super-schusser, Karl Schranz, 33, who was barred from skiing with the Austrian team in the Sapporo Olympics on the grounds that he had repeatedly broken the amateur regulations, has announced that he is going to give up Alpine racing, though he is not yet ready to become a full-fledged professional. "I should like to end my career in dignity, and not as an outlaw of international sports politics," said Schranz, who in 18 years of competition has won three world championships, two World Cups, eleven Austrian championships and eight firsts in the famed Arlberg-Kandahar...
AFTER months of dreary infighting by rule-minded officials, the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan, finally and refreshingly gave way to the athletes last week. Sparked by their youthful zest, the games more than lived up to the Olympic motto: "Citius, altius, fortius" (swifter, higher, stronger). Indeed, when the competition ended after ten days and 35 events, the Swiss had skied swifter, the Japanese had jumped higher, the Americans had come back stronger-and the Russians and East Germans had walked off with the lion's share of medals...
Schranz, who watched the ceremonies on TV in a Sapporo hotel room, had good reason to be bitter. When Olympic history is written, he will be remembered as the man who was caught in the middle of a face-saving showdown between Brundage and the Fédération Internationale de Ski (F.I.S.). The issue was clear-cut. For years F.I.S. skiers have been paid-either openly or under the table-for endorsing equipment. And for years Brundage has been threatening to bar the "trained seals of the merchandisers" from Olympic competition for violating the rule against professionalism...