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...will be provided by the track and field athletes performing in the $700 million concrete stadium that hovers over the Olympic Park like the fossil of some monstrous crustacean. And immediately the absence of Black Africa's runners was felt. In the first day of track heats, New Zealand's John Walker, the world's fastest miler, failed even to qualify for the 800-meter semifinals. This was only a tune-up for the 1,500-meter race Walker runs this Saturday-an event that will not include Tanzania's record-holding Filbert Bayi...
...That grim statistic raised severe doubts about the future of the Games themselves. There was widespread resentment against Canada for kowtowing to Peking and thereby forcing 42 athletes from Taiwan to withdraw (TIME, July 26). There was both consternation and anger over an African walkout directed against New Zealand because it sent a rugby team to South Africa...
...some future withdrawal from the Olympics by a bloc of nations puts great pressure on the IOC-and now also on the host government-to exclude the object of the boycotters' wrath, especially if it is only one small country. The Montreal walkout in protest against New Zealand was, to say the least, highly selective, totally symbolic. For one thing, it was aimed at the presence in South Africa of a racially integrated New Zealand team playing a non-Olympic sport. For another, at least 25 other nations participating in this year's Olympics, including France...
...Games one of the gloomier landmarks in Olympic history, a further explosive political issue cast a pall over the event. Led by Tanzania, 18 Black African countries made good on their threat to boycott Montreal, along with five Arab neighbors. Their complaint was the I.O.C. refusal to ban New Zealand from the Games after that country sent a rugby team to South Africa, which has been banned from Olympic competition since 1968 because of its racial policies...
...beat Bayi in the 1,500, New Zealand's (6 ft. 1 in., 165 Ibs.) national hero was aiming at a 3:30 time. His coach, Arch Jelley, a man not known for optimistic pronouncements, thinks Walker can still set that record. His performance the past two weeks makes the mark seem possible. Walker has been preparing for Montreal by competing ferociously in Europe. On a windy day in Oslo, he broke Michel Jazy's 2,000-meter world record by nearly five seconds (the new mark: 4:51.4). Five days later in Stockholm...