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...Zola Budd competes today in the final women's 3000-meter race at the Los Angeles Olympics. A white native of South Africa, the 17-year-old runner will represent Great Britain, her grandfather's birthplace. The objections raised this spring when Budd relinquished her South African affiliation have faded, edged out of the spotlight by larger considerations. The International Olympic Committee has ruled that Budd's hastily-acquired British citizenship satisfies its requirements, and in the shadow of the Soviet-bloc boycott of the Games, interest in Budd's bid for Olympic gold has focused on today's showdown...
...lamentable combination of politics and sports that has marred Summer Olympiads for two decades can almost be excused in this situation. Whether or not Zola Budd's decision to leave South Africa was her own--indications either way have been unclear--the action serve's as a message: South African athletes while and Black, must and will leave their country to get the recognition they want and deserve. Maree, who is Black, could hardly have represented South Africa's government properly in any case. Budd would have been a credit to the racist government, even if her astounding times could...
...writing slam-bang journalism. But Wolfe's newest project, a novel titled The Bonfire of the Vanities, is another story. Or is it? Rolling Stone magazine has signed him, for a $250,000-plus paycheck, to write Vanities in 27 cliffhanging installments, in the venerable tradition of Dickens, Zola and Dostoyevsky. The real cliffhanger is how long Wolfe can keep tapping the muse without missing an issue. "Two-week deadlines are very rough," admits the author, who has holed up, luxuriously enough, in Southampton, L.I., for his summer labors. The plot of his periodic potboiler revolves around a Jewish...
...both. At last month's trials, winding up four preliminaries and two finals over just six days, Decker finished second in the 1,500, her first loss in four years. Reasoning that "one gold is better than two silvers," she has elected a showdown with South African Sprite Zola Budd, though Decker claims to be more concerned about Rumanian Marciana Puica. In the Helsinki world championships last summer, Decker won both, running Soviet Zamira Zaitseva into the ground. Boycotters Zaitseva and Tatyana Kazankina would be missed more in Los Angeles if that picture were not so fresh and fabulous...
Hooray for the young barefoot runner from South Africa, Zola Budd [SPORT, June 18]! She epitomizes the modern athlete who must deal with political strife and product endorsements and still concentrate on performance. She is handling her trials bravely and has risen above her peers with well-deserved recognition...