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...Vladimir Salnikov pines the same way for Los Angeles and 1984. "When it looked like only some of us could march here," the Soviet swimmer said, "I was just hoping to be one of them. Eight years ago we were alone. Four years ago we were apart. Just once I wanted to walk in together." Moses is still at the top of his game, but Salnikov's long day as the world's freestyle champion has passed. He can expect nothing more in Seoul than to see the last of his records fall in front...
Turner has been saying "The whole idea was to get East and West into the same swimming pool," and that turned out to be one of the sweetest venues. When New Jersey Freestyler Sean Killion, 18, beat the great Vladimir Salnikov in a 400-meter race, Killion blinked and said, "I have a picture of him on my wall at home." Eight years between losses in the 800 or 1,500, Salnikov announced he would break his 800 record and did. "He's the greatest swimmer in history," said TV Commentator Rowdy Gaines, who enjoyed a golden Olympics two years...
Talk of boycotts recurred through the week, to the vexation of U.S. Head Coach Don Gambril, a positive thinker. The missing male swimmers probably would not have made much difference, give or take Soviet Distance Man Vladimir Salnikov. The East German women would have changed some results. But it was the 1980 boycott that had the most powerful effect on these '84 Games. Sixteen members of the present team had been set to swim in Moscow, and most of them would not still be around had they done so. Tracy Caulkins was a team star as long...
Nonetheless, the absence from the Los Angeles Olympics of such Soviet world-record holders as Pole Vaulter Sergei Bubka, High Jumper Tamara Bykova and Swimmer Vladimir Salnikov, and of the East German athletes who have come close to dominating women's track and field, will greatly diminish the luster of many events (see following story). True, the rivalry will be broader than in the 1980 Olympics, which drew athletes from only 81 nations to Moscow. Attendance at Los Angeles might equal, or even surpass, the high of 122 countries represented at the 1972 Games in Munich?though much depends...
Early in his senior year. Countryman accepted an invitation to Mission Viejo Calif., for a special training camp designed to expose the top five distance swimmers from the USSR to their opposition here in the USA. Aside from Countryman the top names in that field included Vladimir Salnikov Brian Goodell. Kyle Ditzler and Hackett...