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The only man ever to win two Olympic 100-meter gold medals was Archie Hahn. the Milwaukee Meteor, in 1904 and 1906. However, the '06 Games were really a quasi-Olympics. coming only two years after the previous Games. By 1908.

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and nobody has done it in three. That's why I've got to be a little skeptical when I hear Steve Williams is going for the gold in '84. in the 100 andor 200 meters. Steve Williams was the World's Fastest Human back in 1973. The year before, as a teen-age sensation, he had been knocked out of the Olympics by a pulled DNC.

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No way I'm supposed to be in a situation as politically important as anchoring the U.S. team, and not be able to do it. I was upset with myself. "I decided I shouldn't be out there unless I could be a representative of who and what I am. I'd been reading articles about other athletes taking time off (Bjorn) Borg.

(Alberto) Salazar. There's something in your adrenal glands, you're constantly drawing on them and sometimes they get worn out, you can't put out the energy. I just decided to take some time off." He did some serious global traveling, some serious work on his athletic-apparel business and some not-so-serious training. He even wrote a screenplay, a fiction -based -on -fact movie about track and field, an "Animal House" of his sport. Williams, a handsome guy.

could play the role of a great sprinter in the movie, but they'll probably look for somebody younger. Steve's business was going well, but he finally decided what he does best in life, what he enjoys most, is running fast. He found he could still do that, so he came back. No brash predictions this time, no looking ahead to the victory stand. Just work.

"I don't even daydream now," Williams said. "I've just got my head down and I'm charging like a bull, I don't see anything." Once upon a time Steve Williams charged like a gazelle. He ran a 9.9 100 meters in a downpour in Berlin. He ran another 9.9 with a starter's pistol shell stuck inside his shoe. If he can make it to the Olympics this time, he thinks he'll have an advantage over some of his competitors.

"An interesting aspect of the '84 Olympics," he said, "is that everyone will have to be there without any drug involvement. A lot of younger athletes think drugs are a cure-all. Everyone having to come there legally sound, I find that's extremely interesting. "People in the underground of the sport know who's doing what. When all of a sudden that has to go away, we have to see who truly has it.

This might sound like a feeble attempt to grab at straws for my confidence, but there are certain confidence-building aspects important in this race (the 100)." Williams will need that confidence. Age 30 is not exactly prime time for sprinters. Kids like Carl Lewis and Calvin Smith have taken over. Lewis is the king, the man expected to win the 100 and 200 this summer, not to mention the long jump. A lot of people are starting to say that Carl Lewis is invincible in the sprints.

"They said the same thing about me," Williams said. But that was another decade. The Pkla Mesa hallenae: $119 3 Days2 Nights-any day of the week But in the summer of 73 Williams got his chance against the Soviet Union's great Valery Borzov. the 72 Olympic gold medalist at 100 and 200 meters. They anchored their respective 400-meter relay teams in the USA -USSR meet in Minsk.

When Williams took the baton, he was three meters behind Borzov. When Williams hit the tape, he was three meters ahead of Borzov. Whatever happened to that brilliant kid with the long legs, flowing style and explosive finish? Well, he became America's 100-meter runner of the decade, world runner-up to Borzov. But he never won the big one, the Olympics. Never even competed.

In 76 Williams modestly predicted four gold medals for himself, but he strained another leg muscle at the trials. In '80 he boycotted, against his will. Then he faded away. Now it's 1984 and Steve Williams is 30. He'll run the 60-yard dash at the Times Indoor Games Friday night, the first public appearance in his comeback.

"I'm sort of stupidly fearless," Williams said. "That might be the stuff fighters are made of who go into the ring one time too many, but at least I won't get knocked out. I was raised watching people like Tommy Smith, John Carlos, Vince Matthews, Lee Evans. People opponents don't impress or upset me." Williams semi-retired after the 1981 World Cup. "I anchored the (400-meter) relay team," he said.

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scored his second victory in six days Sunday as an American boxing team recorded a comeback 3-3 tie against the Soviet Union in the third and final meeting of a 14-day tour. Having won, 6-3. last Tuesday, the U.S. team returns home with a 1-1-1 record, the best any American team has ever done in the Soviet Union. And it might have won again Sunday had Coach Roosevelt Sanders not run out of healthy boxers.

Of the 10 boxers remaining on this trip that went from Moscow to Kiev to Donetsk, only six were healthy enough to box Sunday. The others were sidelined by injuries and illness. With the Americans down, 2-0, Gutierrez, a featherweight, decisioned Eduard Chisainov, 2-1. After that, the Americans won two of the last three bouts. Said Sanders afterward: "We were on a roll at the end, and just ran out of boxers." Gutierrez, a serious, quiet 20-year-old, doesn't fit the mold of a conqueror of Soviet boxers.

He's ranked only seventh among U.S. featherweights and not at all internationally. Yet he's 3-0 against the Soviet Union, 2-0 on this trip and a year ago in Las Vegas beat Viktor Miroshnichenko. a European champion. When Gutierrez entered training at the Turlock Police Athletic League gym, he stacked shelves, worked the register and swept up nights at the local K-Mart.

To make the U.S. Olympic team in June and July, Gutierrez figures he has to defeat Bernard Gray of Boynton Beach, Andy Minsker of Milwaukie, and Victor Levine of Kokomo, Ind. Levine also won here. Donetsk is a Ukranian coal-mining city of 1 million-plus population. It's also a hotbed of USSR boxing.

Soviet national heavyweight and European champion Alexander Yagubkin lives here, as do numerous other former European and world champions. The city has 11,000 registered boxers. Predictably, it was standing room only in the Palace of Sport Sunday afternoon. And unlike the medaled war heroes who sat at ringside at the Moscow and Kiev bouts, the VIP seats in Donetsk went to those wearing "heroes of labor" (coal mining) medals. And if the syntax on the overhead banner wasn't quite in sync of Donetsk welcome the partners of the USSR-USA boxing the warmth was in place.

The American boxers, as was the case in Moscow and Kiev, were warmly applauded. Most of the cheers for Soviet boxers ended early. The USSR jumped off to a 2-0 lead when light flyweight Michael Surjcnko decisioned Ricky Romero of Torrance, 2-1, and flyweight Valery Voronkov outclassed Ty Merrill of Tualitin, 3-0. Then Gutierrez went to work. After the PA announcer introduced him as "Gutierrez Lupe," Gutierrez boxed an even first round with Chisainov.

Then he turned the bout around midway through the second with a straight left-right combination at center ring that wobbled Chisainov's knees. Gutierrez was in clear command for nearly all the third round before he became arm weary and ran out of effective punches with 30 seconds to go. Next, in a second featherweight bout, Levine posted a 2-1 verdict over Igor Kolesnikov. Zach Padilla, a 139-poundcr from Azusa, was matched against the Soviet national champion, Nurlan Abdikali-kov, and lost decisively, 3-0, after spraining an ankle in the second round. Middleweight Arthur Jimmerson of Union City, got the 3-3 tie with a flourish.

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