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...most overwhelming man in the tournament (not to mention the most unlikely participant in the sport) was 7-ft. Akeem ("the Dream") Olajuwon, 20, a converted soccer goalie discovered in Lagos, Nigeria, by a U.S. State Department worker acquainted with Houston Coach Guy Lewis. Olajuwon can run like Alberto Juantorena, the Cuban Olympian, and is a precocious protege of former Houston Rockets Center Moses Malone, now with Philadelphia. "What is the most important thing Moses has taught you?" Olajuwon was asked. "Don't sign anything," he answered...
...meters was won by Soviet Victor Markin, 23, in 44.60, the fastest time recorded in the event in two years. Finishing a game but distant fourth was Alberto Juantorena, 29, called El Caballo (the Horse) in 1976 when he breezed to victories in the 400 and 800. This time, the Cuban was off his form, still suffering the effects of Achilles' tendon surgery last fall. He was a scratch...
...second faster than the mark set by New Zealand's John Walker in 1975. Moreover, just twelve days before, on the same track, Coe had taken the 800-meter race in 1:42.3, lopping more than a second off the 1977 record held by Cuba's Alberto Juantorena. Coe's redoubtable double made him an early favorite in both the 800 and 1500 meters at the 1980 Moscow Olympics...
...Fred Newhouse of the U.S. who watched helplessly as Juantorena burst past him in the last 20 meters. "He ain't God," said Newhouse, "but he's good." "He's what the future of running is going to be," said Mai Whitfield, gold medal winner in the 800 for the U.S. in 1948 and 1952. "He had no respect for nobody. He just went out there and started smoking...
...Sitzberger clearly distinguished the great dives from the merely good ones; Bill Russell delivered intelligent and humane analyses of the basketball games with casual grace; and Marty Liquori, drawing on a decade of running experience, alerted viewers to the explosive potential of Cuba's all but unknown Alberto Juantorena before he won the 800-meter race...