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.
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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.
Mats Wallberg of Sweden placed
Immerfall, 20, beat om
better-known teammate Peteiij
ler to take a bronze in the £
event which was won by Russj
Evgeniy Kulikov in 39.17 s
an Olympic record. ValeriymJ
of the Soviet Union was:
39.25 and Immerfall was |
39. .54.
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