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Friday, July 27, 1984/The Battalion/Page 7
Texas Aggie Rugby Action
Photo by STEVE THOMAS
Members of the Texas A&M Rugby Club
team scramble for the ball during last week
end’s 8th Annual Texas A&M Summer
Seven-A-Side Rugby Tournament. The host
Ags, shown here in action against the top-
rated Dallas Reds, advanced into the quar-
ter-finals of the tourney before losing a
match. Texas A&M went on to capture third
place honors out of 38 teams from all parts
of Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas.
Gymnast questions
scores of perfect ‘10’
See page 7
’84 Summer Games
ready to open in L.A.
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — The XXIII
Olympic Games will be opened Sat
urday with a pagaent of music,
dance and patriotism designed to
produce a “20 goosebump experi
ence” for an estimated worldwide
television audience of 65 million
viewers.
More than 90,000 spectators, pay
ing $200 per ticket, will pack the
confines of the Los Angeles Memo
rial Coliseum to witness the torch
bearing runner lighting the Olympic
flame for the more than 8,000
Olympic athletes in attendance.
“My initial goal for the 1984 open
ing ceremonies was a show that
would be majestic, inspirational and
emotional — a 20 goosebump expe
rience,” said film producer David
Wolper, who choreographed the en
tire opening ceremony.
“Of course, all Olympic opening
ceremonies have goosebumps al
ready built in with tne march of the
athletes and the raising of the Olym
pic flag ... but I want to add to tnat,
creating something unexpected that
would kick off the Los Angeles
Olympic Games in a festive spirit.”
On a combined budget of $7 mil
lion for both opening and closing
ceremonies, a spokesman for the Los
Angeles Olympic Organizing Com
mittee says that is only a fraction of
the amount spent by the Soviet
Union for the 1980 Olympic Games
held in Moscow.
A spokesman for ABC, which is
handling television coverage of the
Summer Games, said the network
expects over 65 million viewers
throughout the world to tune- in to
the opening ceremonies.
The opening ceremonies will pre
sent some 10,000 American musi
cians, singers, dancers and high
school drill team members begining
at 4:30 p.m. (PDT). Moscow fielded
25,000 performers during the ’80
Summer Games.
The initial festivities will begin
with a barrage of fireworks, followed
by more than 2,500 homing pigeons,
blimps and clouds of balloons that
will fill the skies surrounding Los
Angeles.
Wolper spent seven months re
cruiting performers and collecting
200,000 props and 15,000 costumes.
Many of the costumes were designed
to allow performers to change out
fits while on the sidelines due to lack
of dressing room facilities.
Spectators entering the Coliseum
will hear a 15-minute musical over
ture by a 100-piece Olympic Sym
phony Orchestra, followed by ring
ing of church bells and a fanfare of
120 trumpets and 20 timpani drums.
In the usual Olympic tradition,
the host nation will stage a pageant
reflecting its cultural heritage.
Wolper has chosen “Music of Amer
ica,” a presentation of seven medleys
of American music accompanied by
hundreds of dancers involving jazz,
gospel, jitterbug, folk, Dixieland,
Broadway shows and the big band
era.
Some 4,000 performers — musi
cians, dancers, drill teams arid a
thousand-voice Olympic Choir —
will present the 40-minute musical
salute, including pianists at 84 key
boards playing George Gershwin’s
“Rhapsody in Blue.”
“Music of America” will be fol
lowed by the Antwerp flag exchange
involving the original five-ring
Olympic flag first presented at Ant
werp in the 1920s. This time, how
ever, no emissary from the city of
Moscow will be present to hand the
flag to Los Angeles Mayor Tom
Bradley.
The “Olympic Theme” by com
poser John Williams, who wrote the
music for the film “Star Wars,” will
be introduced at the ceremonies and
parts will be played at all 220 Olym
pic sports awards ceremonies
throughout the Games.
The next 80 minutes offer the
greatest spectacle of all, the parade
of the athletes in their national uni
forms, a glittering spectrum of col
ors.
Greece traditionally leads the way
in the parade of athletes with the
other countries following in alpha
betical order. As the host country,
the United States team will follow
tradition and march last.
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LOS ANGELES — The Olympic swim
ming competition opens Sunaay, carrying
the promise of a gold medal bonanza for the
United States team.
On the first day of competition, finals are
scheduled in the women’s 100 meter free
style, men’s 100 meter breaststroke, women’s
400 individual medley and the men’s 200
meter freestyle.
By the time the waters calm, America
could have a pack of gold medals put away.
“We’re looking at possibly a combined to
tal in the neighborhood of 20 gold medals,”
says U.S. Olympic coach Don Gambril, who
says the larger snare of those golds will go to
Tracy Caulkins, Mary T. meagher, Tiffany
Cohen and company.
Based on the world’s top times rankings
this year and the boycott, the American
women are in a position to dominate this
year almost as completely as East Germany
did in 1976, if things go according to form.
But the women’s times at last month’s
Olympic Trials at the Indiana University Na-
tatorium were often slower than observers
had hoped.
“I know some of the times weren’t what
we had hoped for,” says Caulkins, the lead
ing individual gold medal hope for the
women.
Caulkins, winner of 48 national titles in
her career, is the 1984 version of Shirley Ba-
“We’re looking at possibly a combined total in the neighborhood
of 20 gold medals,” says U.S. Olympic coach Don Gambril, who
says the larger share of those golds will go to Tracy Caulkins,
Mary T. meagher, Tiffany Cohen and company.
bashoff, the U.S. team leader in Montreal.
She will compete in three individual events,
the 400-meter and 200-meter individual
medleys and the 100 breastroke.
“There’s no question everyone looks to
Tracy,” says teammate Nancy Hogshead,
who, like Caulkins, is a qualifier in three
events.
The boycott shouldn’t affect the men’s
competition much, but practically unbeata
ble Soviet distance ace Vladimir Salnikov is
out of the 400 and 1,500 freestyles.
The U.S. men boast world record holder
Rick Carey in the 100 and 200-meter back-
stroke. Carey is at his peak and is favored.
John Moffet and Steve Lundquist have
been swapping the 100 breastroke world re
cord and Rowdy Gaines and Mike Heath are
premier 100 freestylers. Pablo Morales, the
rising star of the Olympic trials, emerged as
a world class contender in the 100 and 200
butterfly. George DiCarlo set American re
cords in the 400 and 1,500 freestyles.
There are the “names’
Caulkins,
Meagher, Lundquist, Carey —along with the
unknowns who could grab the Olympic spot
light — Richard Schroeder, DiCarlo, Jenna
Johnson.
And there are also some names missing.
Bill Barrett, American and former world re
cord holder in the 200 individual medley;
Craig Beardsley, American and former
world record holder in the 200 butterfly;
and Susan Walsh, owner of the U.S. record
in the 100 backstroke, all failed to qualify.
Carey would appear to have the biggest
lock on a pair of gold. He broke his 200
backstroke world record in the trials and
came close to his 100 record. His nearest
competition in the longer event is nearly two
seconds away.
“I know this mav sound cocky,” says
Carey, “but I know I nave better times in me
in both races.”
Gross could come up with four golds if he
swims the 400 freestyle, but Gambril thinks
that unlikely. DiCarlo came up with proba
bly the most impressive performances at the
U.S. trials, setting American marks at 400
and 1,500 meters.
“It is too bad Salnikov isn’t going to be
there,” DiCarlo says. “But I’m going to swim
for time in the prelims and to win in the fi
nals.”
Meagher is the biggest favorite among the
U.S. women for two gold medals. She is the
only American woman swimmer with exist
ing world records in Olympic events. She is
optimistic despite not swimming well in ei
ther the 100 or 200 butterfly.
“People keep asking me why I’m not
swimming like 1981 (when she set the
marks). I tell them maybe I don’t have the
same body,” she said.
Jenna Johnson, 16, upset Meagher in the
100 butterfly at the U.S. trials, but Meagher,
off her a career that includes world cham
pionships and Pan Am gold, remains the
Olympic favorite at both distances.
Caulkins, who set an American record in
the 200 individual medley, had hoped for six
individual-event medal opportunities. She
had to settle for three after failing to qualify
for the team in three other marginal events,
but — given the boycott — she could realisti
cally be seen as a favorite in the 200 and 400
I Ms and the 100 breaststroke. She could also
win relay gold.
Jay Hess
transfers
from A&M
United Press International
Jay Hess, a freshman quarterback
who was red-shirted in 1983, an
nounced Thursday he has decided
to leave Texas A&M and enroll at
Northeast Oklahoma Junior College
this fall.
The 195-pound Eastland High
School product, led his team to the
1982 AA state championship, pass
ing for more than 3,000 yards in the
season.
“Jay made a decision not to come
back based on the competition he
faced for the quarterback job at
A&M and the opportunity to play
somewhere else. He’ll play there this
fall, and then probably transfer to a
four-year school in January,” Texas
A&M coach Jackie Sherrill said.
Hess couldn’t transfer to another
four-year school and play immedi
ately, but would be allowed to play in
the fall for a junior college.
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