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...renounce their citizenship; years of training had availed them little more than an unpack-pack-up look at the Olympic Village. There, late Saturday afternoon, a group of New Zealanders, clad in their black-blazered parade uniforms, stood with their arms around several disconsolate Kenyans, still wearing the red warmup suits they had on when they learned of their government's "withdraw immediately" decision that morning. By week's end 25 countries represented by 697 athletes were out of the Games. Gone with them were such potential gold-medal winners as Track Stars Mike Boit of Kenya, Miruts...
...warmup session last week, the East Germans laughed, smiled and swam their laps to the sounds of pop music that their coaches had insisted be piped into the pool. They looked for all the world like candidates for a California swim club-but their training is a lot tougher. With typical Marxist determination, East Germany has established a policy of scientific selection for finding swimmers; it is based partly on early assessment of a child's cardiovascular capacity and body type. Great emphasis is put on weight lifting to build strength. The average East German woman swimmer...
There is little doubt that one of the simplest and most direct garments made, the warmup suit or sweatsuit, will be highly visible in the coming months. But the distance runner, who might work up a sweat just trying to get out of the old find-the-knot-in-the-drawstring model, may not recognize the glossy new suits. Wearers claim that they are more comfortable than blue jeans, and they are more flattering to most women. Along with modified riding pants, they are expected to be the most influential women's trousers for the fall. And not just...
Stumping in Salerno last week in a precampaign warmup, the Christian
...hilarious-abrasive, funny-unfunny analysis-cwra-demonstration of why we laugh at all. Six Manchester men with dead-end jobs aspire to be entertainers in workingmen's clubs, with a possible whack at the London big time. Each act is one leg of a tripod-final warmup, audition, postmortem...