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Page 12 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, FEB. 11, 1976 Soviet, American make own Olympic detente Associated Press INNSBRUCK — U S.-Soviet de tente has reached the point where an American Olympic under-achiever can be dispatched to Siberia with Russian cooperation. But John Morton, who stayed in bed with intestinal flu and sent a sub stitute who fell on his face and broke his rifle in the biathlon competition in the 12th Winter Olympics here, willingly faces the ultimate boon- docks. Morton s upcoming trip is an ex ception to all the exhausted platitudes about sports fostering in ternational understanding, and the uninterested stares that usually pass for relations between athletes from the West and Communist countries. Morton, 29, from Anchorage, Alaska, and Alexander Tikhonov, 29, from Novosibirsk, Siberia, are sim ply friends. By international stan dards, Morton is a rather mediocre performer in the skiing-shooting competition and Tikhnov is a four time world champion, but they poke fun at each other as equals. When Tikhonov, an army captain, invited Morton, an eighth grade En glish teacher, for an open-ended stay in Siberia, where the normal permit ted time for Westerners is two days, Morton said yes. “Hey, John,” Tikhonov says in his mixture of German and English. “You rifle nix good. Sight nix good. Sling nix good. Nix good rifle. But you get me one please.” They both roar. The friendship dates to 1969 when Morton and Tikhonov met at a world championship in Poland. They saw each other at various competitions and Morton’s wife, Mimi, made Tikhonov a ski hat with a hammer and sickle motif. “It blew his mind,” Morton said. “He won the world championship with it on and is very superstitious about it now. It and another thing really cemented the relationship. “We were in Lake Placid, N.Y., and Tikhonov came up to me and said, ‘J°lm> klein problem. Levis good in Soviet Union. Long play re cords also. Suitcase empty. Nix dol lars.’ What he meant was that he wanted to buy presents, but he didn’t have any cash. I had $33 in my wallet and I gave it all to him. The man neyer forgot. ” The invitation from Tikhonov came two years ago. Because the Russian has the title “merited master of sport” and is a Soviet celebrity, he assured Morton that the bureaucra tic details on the Soviet side would be ironed out. But he didn’t know the problems in the States. good life. Tikhonov has two cars, his own house and a dacha by a lake. ★★★ fourth and Peter Mueller I quon, Wis., who had highhoJ gold medal in this event, fin I fifth. “I thought I could go and train with Tikhonov, maybe for a period of up to six months, and bring back all the Soviet expertise to the United States,” Morton said. “But I needed help. The State Department and the state of Alaska both said they thought it was a great idea. And there it stop ped. They didn’t give me a nickel. ” Associated Press INNSBRUCK — Evgenity Kulikov of the Soviet Union won the gold medal in the 500 meter men’s speed skating event in the 12th Winter Olympic Games today. Kulikov’s winning timewa.t| seconds followed by MuratovV 1 and Immerfall’s 39.54. Now Morton plans to stay with Tikhonov for a month to six weeks, enjoying what seems like the Soviet Valeriy Muratov of Russia won the silver medal and Dan Immerfall of Madison, Wis., was third, winning the bronze medal. 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