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...second annual USA Women's International Swimming Competition, held at Harvard's Blodgett Pool this past weekend, was supposed to be the German team's first shot at avenging their embarrassment at Berlin. At first glance, the meet results show that they did so with style: 7 gold medals and 2 U.S. Open records (basically equivalent to world records for yards). But the real story behind this weekend's gathering was the guests who didn't show up--among them Tracy Caulkins (five gold medals, four world records at Berlin), Joan Pennington (two golds, one silver), Kim Linehan (former...
...attended by American coaches and Russian team members. Apparently, the swimmers violated curfew (said to be 11 p.m.), and thus incurred the wrath of the AAU: they were slapped with three-month suspensions barring them from representing the U.S. in any international competition, like that held in Cambridge this weekend...
Caulkins, who like the others was eligible to participate in this weekend's festivities as a member of her AAU club but not the U.S. National Team, had similar sentiments. "I think some people misunderstood the Code of Conduct," the silver-toothed 15-year-old sensation said Friday night from her home in Nashville, Tenn., "because it was after the last day of competition and everything...
These suspensions actually affected only one major event--this weekend's meet. "It won't affect our training schedules, and there will still be some other fast meets this spring," said Caulkins, explaining why she decided not to pay her own way to Cambridge. The AAU customarily picks up travelling expenses for U.S. Team members. Hogshead agreed that "three months is zero," but both she and Woodhead expressed some mild disappointment that the strongest U.S. team wasn't present. AAU officials and U.S. team coach Jack Nelson tried to downplay the effect of the suspensions on the meet by keeping...
Before this weekend's second annual U.S.A. Women's International Swimming Competition was over, however, a perky group of U.S. teenagers, undaunted by the absence of some of their speediest countrywomen because of suspension by the Amateur Athletic Union (see page three), managed to avoid a repeat of the 1976 Montreal fiasco and provide a semblance of respectability to the American effort...