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Contents 22nd OLYMPIC GAMES - AN OVERVIEW 2 22nd OLYMPIC GAMES COMPETITION REPORT 5 ON WATCHING ADAMS LOSE A GOLD MEDAL 15 JUNIOR CORNER 18 STAR PROFILE 20 .' - j ROY INMAN INTERVIEW 21 BRITISH WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIPS 22 ALL JAPAN CHAMPIONSHIPS 23 BRITISH WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIPS IRISH NEWS 28 Cover Photo Published bi-month1v by P...I Radburn (GB) throws Cioc Judo Limited, Publications Division, 28/7 Dumbryden Gardens. Wester Hailes, lRumania) in the earty rounds Edinburgh EH14 2NN. Telephone 031 443 8005. of the Super Heavywei!tltJ Main Office: Judo Limited. 116 Stockport Road, Marple, Cheshire SK6 6AH. during the 22nd Olympic Telephone 061 427 5551. Games - Moscow. Subscription Rates - United Kingdom and Eire - £3.90; Overseas £5.60 (Air· Photo: David Finch mail) £9.90. *l Olympic ~ames - J AnOverview ~ Report: John Goodbody (UPI Paris Bureau) Photos: David Finch The absence of Japan strangled the significance of the 1980 not be a great judo fighter but he was European heavywei!tlt Olympic judo tournament. The competition developed into champion in 1978 and won bronze medals in 1979 and in a replay of May's European Championships with only Cuba, Vienna in May. Mapp threw him four times, two yukos Mongolia and North Korea from the rest of tr'le world making and two wazaris with a variety of throws. He also defeated any consistent and profound impression on the Games. Dimitar Zaprianov, silver medallist in the heavyweight Certainly it was a less vibrant, memorable and intrinsically division. You couldn't really ask more from Arthur than less talented tournament than last year's World Champion­ that. He is the complete opposite of Remfry in that he beau ships in Paris. Still there was much of interest in the Moscow efficiently and quickly competiton who are his equal and Garnes and the most surprising feature was the unexpected inferior, which Remfry seldom could do. On the other hand, dominance of Western Europe, who tool< five of the ei!tlt Lorenz swiftly threw and held-down Mapp, and Remfry titles. The Soviet Union, with all the advantages of compet­ would never have been beaten so condusively by the East ing in front of their own crowd and especially prepared for German. Still all in alt a most welcome performance by the Games. could only manage two gold medals, with the Mapp. odd one going to East Germany's Dietmar lorenz, winner of None of the British team disgraced themselves, although the Open dass in his last competition before retirement. with both Ray Neenan (under 65 kgs) and Peter Donnelly No one has yet offered a satisfactory reason why the Eastern (under 86 kgs) probably now retiring there will be some gaps bloc nations, invariably supreme elsewhere in the Games, to be filled in the coming yean. Radburn didn't get a medal should be relatively unsuccessful in Moscow at Judo. But here but if he continues to train carefully and regularly Western Europe seems to possess an outstanding crop of there is no reason why he shouldn't finish in the first three fi~ters at the moment - Belgium's Robert Van de Walle, in a world championships over the next few years. At 25 France's Angelo Parisi and Thierry Rey and Switzerland's and with only four years experience of international judo, Jurg Rothlisberger and, of course, Britain's Neil Adams. he has a particular chance at the moment to become the Adams was the only one of these not to get a gold medal, leading European heavyweight. The standard of heavy­ although he is quite possibly the most gifted of all of them. weights has been mediocre enough, goodness knows, in His rlefeat in the light middleweight final by his great Italian recent years but it now looks as if it will .become even rival Ezio Gamba, who had left military service to be able worse in the immediate future. Neither Vitaly Kuznetsov, to compete in Moscow, was caused, I believe, by a clash of now 39 years old, nor Sergei Novikov, 31 in December. styles. Certainly Gamba's acute left-handed grip, low centre are likely to continue after these Games. Both were virtually of gravity and stubbornness upsets Adams' usual fluency exhumed for these Olympics but neither had the real desire and superb attacking techniques. The French National for success, quite understandable after such long careers. coach Jean-Paul Coche, 1972 Olympic bronze medallist, They were probably obliged to continue because in that W'lS one of those more objective observers who thought way they would obtain "privileges" from the Soviet state. Neil too "stiff and tight" in the final. It must have been a There will be Alexei Tiurin, European heavyweight champ­ particular disappointment for Adams because he looked ion, of course, but there is no other Soviet competitor seem­ superb earlier in the day, completely destroying all the ingly ready to succeed Kuznetsov and Novikov.