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SEEKING RENATURALIZATION. Zola Budd, 18, bashful, barefoot, adopted British runner whose dreams of Olympic glory ended in defeat and pain when she collided with American Archrival Mary Decker; in an application to regain the South African citizenship she so swiftly surrendered last spring in order to compete in Los Angeles as a Briton and circumvent the Olympic ban on her country's athletes; in Bloemfontein, South Africa. The move effectively ends her international running career and the lucrative endorsement deals that might have accompanied...
Just listen. The jaunty fiddling of a Celtic folk song. The stammering voice of Melville's Billy Budd protesting his innocence. The Los Angeles Philharmonic's rousing rendition of Beethoven's Fifth. And the husky, down-home inflections of Garrison Keillor inviting one and all to drop in on the imaginary hamlet of Lake Wobegon, "the little town that time forgot and that decades cannot improve...
...same Olympic crowd that made me feel so patriotic at the opening of the Games made me ashamed when it booed Zola Budd...
...into Fiance Richard Slaney's arms. He is a discus thrower on the British team, and they are massive arms. Set down on a small flight of steps in the tunnel, she accepted condolences from all the other runners but one. "Don't bother," she told Budd, who once kept a photograph of Decker tacked on her bedroom wall, the one in South Africa. "Zola Budd tried to cut in basically without being ahead," said Decker, who added she would have pushed Budd but feared newspaper headlines and disqualification. "I should have pushed," she said. They will push...
...memory and manners, went to West Germany, followed by Switzerland and Sweden. Touch of Class led a disciplined U.S. squad to its first ever gold in team show jumping. Joe Fargis, who shares a Virginia farm with Homfeld, was aboard. He compared the little mare to Runner Zola Budd: "She's quite small too, but she runs very fast for her size...