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United Press International straight the competition at UCLA’s Pauley ing while Li earned 9.80 on parallel LOS ANGELES — Japan’s Koji Pavilion. bars, they went wild. Gushiken earned one perfect 10 and He earned his perfect score, one It became evident when the new United Press International scored no less than 9.9 in the other of three awarded Thursday night, in leaders were posted on the 1 LOS ANGELES — Meldrick Tay­ five events Thursday night to edge vaulting and picked up 9.95 on the scoreboard after the fifth rotation lor of Philadelphia, the youngest American Peter Vidmar for the still rings and horizontal bar. He set­ that Vidmar was going to be looking member of the U.S. Olympic boxing Olympic gold medal in men’s indi­ tled for 9.90 on pommel horse, floor for a 10 in his last event, parallel team, kept the American win streak vidual all-around gymnastics compe­ exercise and parallel bars. bars, in order to overtake Gushikin. alive Thursday with a 5-0 thrashing tition. Gushiken made no major breaks Vidmar came close. He was flaw­ ol Romania’s Nicolae Talpos in the China’s crowd-pleasing Li Ning or errors. Rather, his failure to earn less until his dismount, but he lost 125-pound division. earned the bronze medal in a com­ 10s across the board stemmed from his balance slightly and scored a petition decided by hundredths of a a couple minor missteps and a lower 9.90. Taylor, just 17, blistered the Ro- point. degree of difficulty for his routines. anian with seven and eight-punch Seven men entered the competi­ Through the luck of the draw de­ Each nation qualified three gym­ ffiurries to the body throughout the tion separated by two-tenths of a termining order of performance, nasts into the all-around competi­ |econd-round bout to extend the point coming from team competi­ Gushikin didn’t take over the lead tion, but all three Americans man­ merican unbeaten streak to nine. tion Tuesday night. Those seven fin­ until the fifth of six rotations. aged to finish in that tight top seven ished separated by just 0.475 points. Until that point, the competition of the 36 participants. Robert Shannon tried to make it Gushiken, at 27 the oldest of the appeared to be a duel between Vid­ 0 straight Thursday night when he all-around finalists, defeated Vid­ mar and Li. Vidmar led Li by .05 en­ Mitch Gaylord, tied for sixth with ade his Olympic debut with a sec- mar by 0.025— with 118.7 of a possi­ tering Thursday night’s competition China’s Xu Chiqing entering the fi­ and picked up another 10th of a ! I’m (aldjf ond-round bout in the 118-pound ble 120 points to 118.675 for the nals, finished fifth behind Tong. Iflass against Sammy Mwangi of Ke- UCLA product. Li had 118.575. point on the 20-year-old Chinese Conner took sixth, just ahead of Xu. Hya. Both Taylor and Shannon drew “I didn’t come here to lose,” star on the first rotation by earning ■first-round byes. Gushiken had warned after fin­ the first 10 of the night, on the hori­ “I think it’s amazing, it’s great,” ishing team competition ranked fifth zontal bar, while Li earned 9.90 in said Conner, a three-time Olympian, I Taylor, a product of the gym of behind Vidmar and Li. floor exercise. referring to the closeness of the I former heavyweight champion Joe Gushiken, runnerup to the Soviet The largely pro-American crowd competition. “For a gymnast, the all- Brazier, began tentatively against the Union’s Demitri Belozerchev at the knew that Vidmar and Li were tied around is like the Heisman Trophy. ■Romanian southpaw, but soon be- 1983 World Championships in Bu­ for first entering the fifth event and, For the three of us Americans to be iy Han sliding underneath his oppo­ dapest, was a model of consistency in when Vidmar scored a 9.90 in vault­ that high is just fantastic.” nent’s lazy right jab and scoring heavily with the combinations to the toy; lody. He hurt Talpos early in the final U.S. beats South Korea and then chased him around ill conlinut lie ring for the final two minutes as nges of our the Romanian tried desperately to apidly dives Stay out of Taylor’s reach. I “I’m pretty proud that I am the in women’s hoop action iustrial proi youngest fighter on the team,” Tay­ expand 8,jji lor said. “Maybe I can go down in United Press International a 2 percent! iiistory as the youngest if I win the The teams then exchanged bas­ first Olympic gold medal, previously rate of 9.2 p | INGLEWOOD, Calif. — The U.S. routed Yugoslavia and Australia. gold medal.” kets before an 18-4 burst — keyed by 1985. women’s basketball team, tested 4 points each by Lawrence, Lynette South Korea, with victories over Yu­ should Jackie Fields, the 1924 Olympic briefly in the first half, improved its Woodard and Cindy Noble — put goslavia and Canada, fell to 2-1. The Isihroughl? ifeatherweight champion, holds that Olympic record to 3-0 Thursday by the Americans in control at 40-20. Americans have won their three exceedingik American record. He was 16 when pummeling previously undfeated South Korea, expected to give the games by a total of 99 points. he won his medal. But Taylor could South Korea 84-47. Americans some trouble with their Earlier Thursday, Canada im­ f living...wi become the youngest since then, Photo by SUZANNE FISK Cheryl Miller had 16 points and zone press, was taken out of the proved its record to 2-1 with a 56-46 itional aver# .. Janice Lawrence added 13 for the game as a result of shooting 35 per­ triumph over Australia. Bev Smith rable tax sic The minimum age for making the A&M Basketball Camp Americans, who play China Friday cent in the first half making 13 turn­ and Andrea Blackwell had 12 points ' United States Olympic boxing team night. overs. each for the winners and Robyn is 17. From left to right, high school students Michele Hartman In qualifying for a spot in the next Lawrence hit four fouls shots and Maher scored 12 for Australia, 0-3. I Taylor’s next opponent will be from Nassau Bay, Leesa Hawkins from Robinson, Lori Mob­ round, the U.S. squad broke to leads Miller had three baskets early in the nag of 12-2 and 20-6 before the South The top four teams in the six- Mexico’s Francisco Camacho, who ley form Lake Jackson and Kim Brown from Mansfield get in second half to make it 50-24. U.S. stopped Jean Luc Bezoky of Mada­ Koreans made their only run and Coach Pat Head Summitt played her team tournament advance to the gascar in the bout preceding Tay- position for a rebound during a scrimmage. pulled to 20-14 midway through the reserves the rest of the way. next round with the gold medal to Ijor’s. That fight will be held Sunday. first half. The Americans, bidding for their be decided Aug. 7. Swim relay team posts world record, takes gold

United Press International Americans in the 1982 World Cham­ crowd at the pool at the University Soviet ’s previous LOS ANGELES — The American pionships. The United States had won eight straight golds at one of Southern California campus. mark of 3:51.31 set in 1980. But 4 x 100-meter freestyle relay team, Americans went 1-2 in both the won the bronze while West ’s Thomas Fahrner, mirroring the electric performance women’s 100 butterfly and the 400 point before Canada's Victor Davis won the gold medal , anchored by double who had finished ninth in the pre­ f their 800-meter counterparts, freestyle. Mary T. Meagher, world in the 200-meter breaststroke by lowering his own gold medalist , could lims, came back minutes later to ontinued the United States’ gold record-holder in the 100 butterfly, not overcome a large deficit. swim a 3:50.91. edal harvest in Thurs- edged teammate to world record in a race that saw the United States shut Meagher had broken East Ger­ After a consultation by FIN A, the lay by establishing a world record in capture the gold in that event and out. many’s Kornelia Ender’s Olympic international governing body for he final race of the day. George DiCarlo nipped fellow record in the prelims but she spotted swimming, Fahrner was awarded the The relay quartet, anchored by American in the Johnson, whb had upset her in the Olympic record. DiCarlo still is the 100-meter freestyle gold medalist 400 freestyle. shut out. Olympic trials, the early lead and medal winner. r:259:45 team took an early lead behind Matt , overtook Australia in The United States had won eight The Americans also came up Cavanaugh but the Aussies caught had to overcome the 16-year-old the final 100 meters to push the straight golds at one point before empty in the women’s 100-meter up halfway through the race. The California swimmer in the final 25 “When I saw DiCarlo’s time, I was i Senility United States’ gold medal total in Canada’s Victor Davis won the gold breaststroke, won by Holland’s Petra race was nearly dead even when meters to win the gold. convinced I could beat it,” he said. “I dtse. swimming to 14. The United States’ medal in the 200-meter breaststroke Van Staveren in Olympic record-set­ Gaines hit the water and the veteran DiCarlo, a University of Arizona should have swum as hard as I could time of 3:19.03 lowered the previous by lowering his own world record in ting time. sprinter held off the Aussies before senior, had set an Olympic record in this morning instead of just trying to world best of 3:19.26 set by the a race that saw the United States The American 4 x 100 meter relay a flag-waving, partisan American winning his race in 3:51.23, eclipsing take it easy and just qualify.” basketball team rates its performance ‘9.6’ United Press International in Group B with each assured a get up and down the floor well.” been little more than anti-climaxes tough games. The American people only event on the players’ minds. LOS ANGELES — If gold medals berth in the next round. The top Despite the lopsided scores, to Knight’s practices. The teams can’t get too overconfident now. I were awarded for practice, Bobby four teams from Groups A and B Knight has not relented in his drive from Yugoslavia, and Spain fig­ think they’re more overconfident “We’ve been sitting around watch­ ing the gymnastics competition,” he Knight might be resting easier. advance. The Americans next face for execution and his insistence on ure to provide the most serious tests. than we are because we know we “The best basketball we’ve played Friday. fundamentals. have to still go out and still work at said. “Me, Michael (Jordan), Steve :159:35 Wayman Tisdale, who has played it.” (Alford) and Vern (Fleming), we’re so far has not been in the games,” Franck, with losses to Uruguay, “He’s always striving for perfec­ well underneath, likened China to a sort of becoming judges ourselves. the U.S. Olympic basketball coach China and Spain, could face its coup tion,” said SMU center Jon Koncak. junior college team and Canada to a Leon Wood, who has run the fast After a competition, we’ll kind of said Thursday, “but on the practice de grace against the United States. “We were up by 25 at the half Division I team. He said any Big break masterfully, said the first rate the performance. We were floor after playing China.” The French are led by center Phil­ against Canada and I thought were Eight Conference school could beat three opponents have presented few jumping off the chair when Mary It’s not as if the score with China ippe Szanyiel and forwards Eric were playing pretty well. But he Uruguay. problems. Lou Retton got a 10. How would I was close and the Americans needed Beugnot and Herve Dubuisson, re­ came in the locker room and jumped rate our team so far? to whip their game into shape —they cently signed by the NBA’s New Jer­ all over us. He never lets us get com­ “At this point, we feel if you take “I’ve been able to do anything I won easily 97-49. Next came Canada sey Nets. Knight respects their capa­ placent.” the scoreboard away, I think we feel want so far as the break goes,” he “Well, obviously we can’t play a and an 89-68 victory, followed by a bilities. [ 104-68 blitz of Uruguay. that we’ve been losing the games, all said. “I usually throw one move and perfect game. I would rate it a 9.6, The 3-0 record leaves the United “They’ve got excellent person­ Thus far the games — from a three of them,” the Oklahoma All- I’m gone.” but maybe Coach Knight would rank it lower.” -States tied with Spain for first place nel,” he said. “They shoot well and purely athletic standpoint — have America said. “We still have a lot of Wood said basketball is not the mAlHKJlB w PARIS NEW YORK LONDON TOKYO

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