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Beforehand, experts wrote off the U.S. Olympic boxing team as a mere shadow of the 1984 squad, which had won a record nine gold medals. But last week they finished with eight medals -- three gold, three silver and two bronze. Except for the boycotted 1984 Games, it was the best U.S. total since 1904. The gold winners: bantamweight Kennedy McKinney, 22, light heavyweight Andrew Maynard, 24, and heavyweight Ray Mercer, at 27 the oldest U.S. fighter, who danced delightedly around the ring after knocking out Korea's Baik Hyun-man. Light middleweight Roy Jones, 19, lost a plainly mistaken decision...
...over the Soviet women in the semifinals, 102-88, and the gold-medal game was largely an anticlimax. The U.S. men, surprisingly, never made it to the finals. Despite having eight first-round N.B.A. draft picks on the team, they were ambushed in the semis by a seasoned Soviet squad, 82-76. Led by their 7-ft. 3-in. center Arvidas Sabonis and a veteran corps of deadeye 3-point shooters, the Soviets used superior height and a 25-lb.-per-man weight advantage to jam the lanes with a sagging zone defense and thwart U.S. drives on the basket...
...race. "At the end, he had more strength." The bitterest frustration, however, came when the anchor man on the U.S. B team, running in a heat for the 4 X 100-meter relay, took possession of the baton outside the designated zone. That meant disqualification, preventing the regular U.S. squad, which Lewis would have anchored, from competing in the finals. Carl's still remarkable Olympic total: six golds and a silver. "This has been a bizarre Olympics," he summed up at week's end. "There have been a lot of ups and a lot of downs...
...squad will cap off the fall season in the 45-team New England tournament to be held at New Seabury, Ma., next Tuesday and Wednesday...
Coaches: Maxie Baughan is a cult hero in Ithaca. N.Y. Baughan, an eloquent pigskin orator, was a defensive coordinator for the Detroit Lions before taking the Cornell helm in 1983. The closest he came to winning an Ivy title was in 1986, when his squad lost to Penn in the final weekend. He is 22-29-1 at Cornell and 2-2-1 against Harvard...