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...fault found in Decker also had to do with style. That flinty and fragile , 15-year-old who flung batons in charming anger simply seemed less wholesome and attractive at 26 throwing brickbats at Zola Budd. Before a poster of Decker tacked tenderly to her bedroom wall, Zola had once been awestruck that "anyone could be so pretty." Now that the athletes have resumed running and jumping, a number have been reluctant to let Mary up. "Some of us," says Ruth Wysocki, "are relieved that the public knows the Mary we knew all along," the one whom Miler Steve Scott...
...winter has been eventful. Several days after the fact was only casually reported to Oregon police, Mary described a melodrama in which she played Little Nell to a mugger of undetermined size and indistinguishable features who jumped from his bicycle and knocked her down almost in the fashion of Zola Budd, savaging the same hip. He threatened to kill her with a knife but she escaped to flag down the car of an elderly couple, whose names...
SOREST LOSER. Olympian Mary Decker falling down and not letting up on Zola Budd...
SEEKING RENATURALIZATION. Zola Budd, 18, bashful, barefoot, adopted British runner whose dreams of Olympic glory ended in defeat and pain when she collided with American Archrival Mary Decker; in an application to regain the South African citizenship she so swiftly surrendered last spring in order to compete in Los Angeles as a Briton and circumvent the Olympic ban on her country's athletes; in Bloemfontein, South Africa. The move effectively ends her international running career and the lucrative endorsement deals that might have accompanied...
...same Olympic crowd that made me feel so patriotic at the opening of the Games made me ashamed when it booed Zola Budd...