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Crowd was really a group of early Penn State arrivals in Los Angeles. Paulsen will
seek support from some 70.000 fans expected at the Colesium Saturday, when he gives a
halftime address at the Lion-UCLA contest.
Elections, Sex Tests
Beset Olympic Games
MEXICO CITY (AP) A calm Mexico
City, heavily patrolled. by police and soldiers,
awaits the opening of the Olympics Saturday as
new controversy swirled around the Games.
The International Olympic Committee was
locked in argument over whether to re-elect as
President Avery Brundage, the rich 81-year-old-
Chicagoan who has headed the Olympics since
1952.' The Communist countries oppose him.
Striking students, whose clashes with the
police in recent weeks haVe cost upwards of 50
lives, held secret policy meetings. Indications
were that any future protests would be on the
orderly side.
The lOC's medical commission is in a
dispute with the International Swimming Asso
ciation over girl swimmers taking the sex test.
Berge Phillips, the Australian president of the
association, says the tests are degrading and
shocking and opposes them.
However some girl swimmers have volun-
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teered to take the tests. So far more than 500
girls out of the 962 competing here have passed
the tests. There have been no rejections. The
tests were instituted after mannish appearing
girls won medals in past Games.
No one know to what extent the violence
that beset this nation has affected the expected
influx of tourists. The reason is that the
government required rooms to be paid for in
advance. The hotels naturally report they are
sold out.
Already the Games have set a record. More
than 7,500 athletes from more than 100 nations
are competing here. Tokyo in 1964 set the pre
sent record of 94 nations and 5,565 athletes al
though Helsinki in 1952 drew 5,867 athletes from
only 69 nations.
A sellout crowd of more than 80.000 is ex
pected for the opening ceremonies in the ultra
modern Olympic Stadium.
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Gods Spin Over Olympics
By STEVE SOLOMON
Collegian Sports Write,
When it came time every four years to pay
tribute to the proprietors of Mount Olympus,
whom they worshipped, the Greeks were of a
single mind. They temporarily ended their petty
wars and sent their greatest athletes to engage
each' other in more aesthetic pursuits. They
threw the spear for distance instead of for
death, ran for time and not for a general, boxed
for an olive leaf, not for their life.
The Greeks felt the real meaning of the
Olympics—the competition of God-given gifts
and personal sacrifice, the short duration of
peace, and the fraternity of men through sport.
They ran and rode, jumped and boxed, only
with a mind to whip the other guy.
With them—with Euripedes, with Phidipides
and with Pericles, the Olympic ideal died. It
was their crea
tion, a precious
craftsma n s hip.
The Romans
abused it, then
killed it. A
Frenchman res
urrected it, but
did so as a pro
motional plo y.
And the sacri
lege continues to
today, to Nov.,
1968, to the Mex
ico City Summer
Games.
Beneath t h e
ceremony, th e
pomp, the pag
eantry, lies the
stark reality of
the Olympic
Games. It is a study in mass self-deception; in
irony. Supposedly an international athletic com
petition above the sway of politics, it has be
,come enmbrOiled in just that; billed as a show-
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Politics,
Professionalism ...
case of the world's finest amateur athletes, it
reeks of under-the-table professionalism; origi
nally conceived for the moral uplift of man, it
debases female competitors with a compulsory
test of sex, which in the opinion of many, proves
only a woman's right of residence on the planet.
Perhaps it is impossible to divorce politics
from an international event, although Avery
Brundage, president of the International Olym
pic Committee, seemingly has worked an eight
hour day for most of his 80 years to do it. His
record has been impressive. He opposed a U.S.
move to boycott the 1936 Games in Berlin when
Hitler was solidifying his power behind the
Aryan supremacy theory. America showed up,
and a poor Southern Negro named Jesse Owens
won four gold medals and sent Hitler home—
red-faced, broiling, and perhaps thinking twice
about his theory.
His one failure, though, almost aborted the
'6B Games and left the host country, Mexico,
up a $l5O million tree.
South Africa, which had been voted out
of the 1964 Olympics in protest of its racial
apartheid policy, was readmitted last February
by the International Committee. Subsequently,
approximately 40 nations hinted they would
rather watch the proceedings via satellite than
mix company with an immoral aggregation of
runners and swimmers. So South Africa was
kicked out. The result? A record-breaking swim
mer, Karen Muir, and a world-class black run
ner, Humphrey Khosi, are denied the experi
ence which has governed their very existence
over the past several years.
South Africa's racial policies are indeed
reprehensible, but it is doubted here that piously
removing them from the Olympics will alter
their political and social destiny.
And here again, an inescapable irony
emerges. The Russian representative on the
Olympic Committee charged South Africa with
"violating Olympic ideals". A few months later,
Soviet tanks were patrolling. Czech streets, just
as they had in Hungary only months before
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kind must judge the governments under whose
flags the athletes compete, the Russian moral
Posture should be up for examination. And a
few-score other nations, too.
Charges of professionalism is a specter
which haunts all of amateur athletics today.
Sac and Fox Indian Jim Thorpe, one of the
greatest athletes of all times, was forced to
surrender all his Olympic medals when the
world discovered that he had taken $l5 a game
for playing baseball as a starving unknowing
youth. Today, however, a Russian athlete can
somehow support a family while devoting all
his time to competition and practice, and an
American can live quite well despite traversing
the world on the invitation of a promoter who
needs a "big name" to sell his show. Even the
American scholarship college athlete must an
swer to the charge of professionalism; in ex
change for four years of service, he receives
for free an education sometimes worth upwards
of $lO,OOO .
One Too Many
The newly-installed sex tests strike a dis
tressing chord in any dignified human. Witness
the case of one Ewa Klobukowska of Poland,
a bronze medal winner in the 1968 Winter
Games. Ewa checked in with one extra chromo
some, a sin which banishes her from further
athletic competition, unless she should choose
to challenge Tommy Smith or Jim Ryun. The
inutterable shame of the controversy is the
damage perpetrated upon Ewa's pride, when not
even the American Medical Association recog
nizes the examinations she was forced to under
go—the buccal smear and the karyotype—as
foolproof methods of determining an individual's
sex.
No, the Olympic Games are not quite what
the reigning gods on Olympus had in mind.
They are, however, the best man can do—inter
national, but sometimes exclusive; amateur, yet
blatantly professional; free of politics, but mired
in the possibility of strikes and boycotts.
And, of course, genetically pure.
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