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Lewis shatters record
on road to third gold
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — Carl Lewis, re
capturing his fans as quickly as he
lost some of them, stepped within a
heartbeat of the legendary Jesse
Owens Wednesday night when he
won the 200 meters for his third
Olympic gold medal.
Drawing away powerfully in his
now familiar style, Lewis paced the
first American sweep in the Olympic
200 since 1956, crossing the line in
an Olympic record 19.80 seconds.
Kirk Baptiste, who trains with Le
wis in Houston, and Thomas Jeffer
son of Cleveland, Ohio, a pair of 22-
year-olds moving into world class
stature, completed the American
sweep of the medals.
If he anchors the heavily favored
united States 4 x 100 meter relay
team to victory Saturday, Lewis will
have his fourth gold medal and will
duplicate the famous feat owens ac
complished in the 1936b Berlin
Olympics.
Long forgotten were the scattered
boos Lewis heard when he passed on
his final four long jumps Monday
night. When he hit the wire in the
200 final, the sellout crowd of
92,000 at the Memorial Coliseum
erupted in a flag-waving celebration
to embrace Lewis. Lewis jogged a
victory lap with his two fellow Amer
ican medalists, locked arm-in-arm.
Baptiste was timed in 19.96 and
Jefferson in 20.26. Lewis broke the
Olympic record of 19.83 set by Tom
mie Smith of the United States in
1968. World record holder Pietro
Mennea of Italy was seventh in the
eight-man field.
"The first thing we wanted to do
was sweep,” Lewis said. “It didn’t
matter what the places were. That’s
what made the flag we were carrying
more special.
“I try to do my hardest. That’s
what’s going to be remembered, the
way the American team performed,
not the boos I got because they
wanted to see more, which is even a
kind of praise.”
In the first finals of the day, Na-
wal El Moutawakil of Morocco beat
American Judi Brown to win the
400-meter hurdles and Alonzo Bab
ers, running without favorite Bert
Cameron, upset teammate Antonio
McKay to capture the men’s 400
gold medal.
Cameron, the world 400 cham
pion from Jamaica, decided at the
last minute that his muscle cramp
from Monday’s semifinals had not
healed enough. That appeared to
leave a wide-open path to the gold
for McKay, the Georgia Tech flash
who had boldly predicted a victory.
But it was Babers, the 22-year-old
Air Academy grad, who controlled
the race.Darren Clark of Australia
jumped out to the early lead but was
caught at 200 by Babers, who pulled
away to win in 44.27.
Babers was the only person to beat
Cameron in 1983 and he beat him
again in 1984 in a meet in Northern
California.
Gabriel Tiacoh of the Ivory Coast
won the silver in 44.54 while McKay
settled for a bronze in 44.71 after a
last-seconds rally passed Clark.
In the women’s 200 meters, Vale
rie Brisco-Hooks, who set an Ameri
can record in winning the 400 me
ters Monday, paced herself through
the first two rounds of preliminary
heats as she began her quest for a
second Olympic gold medal.
Brisco-Hooks eased to a first-
round victory in 23.30 seconds and
two hours later came back in the sec
ond round, finishing a strong sec
ond to Rose-Aimee Bacoul of
France.
The only other final held was the
pole vault. Mike Tully and Earl Bell
of the United States and Thierry Vi-
gneron and Pierre Quinon of France
were expected to contend for the
medals.
American Mary Decker began ac
tion in the 3,000-meter first round
along with Zola Budd of Great Brit
ain, Maricica Puica of Romania and
marathon bronze medalist Rosa
Mota of Portugal.
Carol Lewis had her long jump
qualifying at about the same time as
her brother’s 200 final.
Toronto blasts Rangers
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — American
Greg Louganis, finally winning the
only major international award that
has eluded him, Wednesday night
captured the gold medal in Olympic
springboard divingby an over
whelming margin.
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United Press International
ARLINGTON, Texas — Dave
Collins drove in three runs and Er
nie Whitt and Tony Fernandez each
homered Wednesday night to lift the
Toronto Blue Jays to a 7-2 triumph
over the Texas Rangers.
Jim Clancy (9-11) won his second
straight start. The 28-year-old right
hander allowed seven hits and struck
out six in eight innings and retired
11 straight from the third through
the sixth innings.
Toronto jumped out tp a 2-0 lead
in the third against Danny Darwin
(6-7) on an RBI double by Collins,
who had three hits, and Willie Up
shaw’s RBI single.
Whitt’s eighth homer of the year,
with one out in the fourth, gave To
ronto a 3-1 lead. Collins ripped a
two-run single off Ranger reliever
Odell Jones in the sixth to make it 5-
1.
Fernandez drove in two runs with
his second major-league homerun in
the seventh to extend the lead to 7-1.
The closest the Rangers could get
was 2-1 in the third inning off a Gary
Ward run-scoring grounder.
Photo by PETER ROCHA
Aggie Fall Workouts
Mark Motley, a freshman quarterback from Ore City and one
of five members of the Dallas Times-Herald Blue Chip list to
sign with Texas A&M, looks to make a pitch off during a
practice session at Kyle Field. The new Aggie recruits will
practice once more, today at 3 p.m., before joining the varsity
players on Monday to begin full-team workouts.
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Louganis’ total of 754.41 points,
ust under his previous record of
"55.59, gave him a 92 point victory
that will enable him to attempt an
unprecedented sweep of Olympic
diving medals this weekend. Louga
nis goes after the platform diving
gold this weekend. No man has ever
won both in the same Olympiad.
Tan Liangde of China edged out
Ron Merriot of the United States by
less than a point for the silver medal.
Louganis’ near flawless perfor
mance included four perfect 10s —
three from one Sweedish judge.
The 24-year-old San Diego native
was strong and consistent enough
throughout the competition to easily
win his second Olympic medal. In
1976, he won the silver medal in the
springboard at the Montreal Games.
As is usually the case, Louganis
took the lead after the first dive and
never trailed. Louganis led by 30
points at the end of the compulsories
and stretched the margin in the op
tional program.
Louganis does not have a dive
with a degree of difficulty under a
3.0 rating in his six-dive elective pro
gram. He consistently racked up
scores of over eight to pull away
from the field.
That left the battle for the silver
and bronze medals.
The two Chinese divers, Li
Hongping and Tan, and Merriott,
24, of Rockford, Ill., staged a battle
throughout the rest of the competi
tion.
Li wound up fourth with Great
Britain’s Christopher Snode taking
fifith and Piero Italianiof Italy fin
ishing sixth.
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