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University Daily Kansan, February 8. 1984
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Large crowd expected to see Olympic opening ceremonies
By United Press International
SARAJEVO. Yugoslavia — More than 60,000 people will pack Sarajevo's outdoor soccer stadium today for the fortieth anniversary of the 1984 Winter Olympics.
In addition to those who paused anywhere from $11 to $27 for seats to watch the 90-minute extravaganza at Kosevo Stadium, some 2 billion people worldwide will get to see the afternoon ceremony on television for free.
About 4,500 unemployed Yugoslavian youths and university students put on a demonstration of gymnastics and ballet delivered in technicolor suits of bright pink and puce, electric yellow and peacock blue.
Security is already tight, with thousands of army and security police on
the streets, some carrying machine guns. At every sports venue and major Olympic sight, airport-style X-ray scanners and metal detectors have been used with guards even want to peek into their purses when they set off the buzzer.
The Olympic torch arrived yesterday, greeted by small crowds of curious Sarajevo residents who lined several of the main streets. Yugoslavian skier Ivco Cernan will carry the torch into the stadium and then hand it over to Sanda Gavrilo, a 26-year-old Yugoslavian figure skating champion, who will light the flame.
The parade of nearly 1,600 Olympic athletes represents a record number of countries participating in the Winter Games — 49 — ranging from the Americans in their Levi red-white-and-blue suits to the Russians in
bearskin hats.
The oldest is Sweden's 54-year-old Carl Erik Eriksson, a bobsledler, while the youngest is Argentina's Geraldina Bobbio, 16. The heaviest man will be West German luger Hans Stanggaser at 245 pounds and the shortest man is Britain's cross country runner, Ros Coates, who is 5-foot-3.
The two Chinas will compete for the first time ever, the Republic of China now competing as the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee. The Taiwanese planned to compete at Lake Placid in 1980 but were banned for refusing to change their name from the Republic of China.
Seven nations are making their Winter Olympic debut at Sarajevo; Puerto, Rio de Janeiro, Costa Rica, Egypt, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, Senegal and South Korea.
Soviets sign $3 million TV contract to broadcast '84 Summer Olympics
By United Press International
LOS ANGELES — The Soviet Union signed a $3 million television contract yesterday to broadcast the 1984 Summer Olympics in its country and 15 others, another strong indication that the Soviets and their allies will compete in the Games.
The signing at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, was announced by the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee.
The Soviets have hinted strongly that they will compete in the Summer Games, but have not officially accepted the LAOAC's invitation. Sport soviet officials said the final decision would be announced June 2, but yesterday's official signing statement as a powerful sign of the Soviets' intention to participate in the Olympics.
The announcement came one day after a senior Soviet member of the
International Olympic Committee surprised Los Angeles Olympic officials by paying tribute to the LAOOC for doing "an excellent job."
The remarks by Constantin Andrianov were in stark contrast to highly critical comments on the planning for the Los Angeles Games that had marked nearly all discussions between the LAOAC and Soviet officials.
LAOOC spokeswoman Amy Quinn said that the signing was "certainly another very, very positive sign" that Boulders would compete in the Olympics.
The contract calls for the Games, which start July 28, to be broadcast in Cuba and Nicaragua along with East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Croatia, Albania, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Kampuchea and Yemen.
The LAOOC and the Soviet Union reached a tentative agreement on the contract last August. The deal was to be
signed Sept. 26 but Soviet officials postponed that signifying.
Yesterday's ceremonies included a $1 million down payment. The contract calls for an additional $1.5 million payment within 60 days, with the final $500,000 to be paid to the LAOOC by June 5, three days after the deadline for formal acceptance of the invitation to compete in the Games.
ABC-TV has paid $225 million for telecast rights to the Games in the United States. The LAOAC has said that it expected about $300 million in sponsorship. Quinn said yesterday the LAOAC now "expected to do a little better than that."
The LAOOC is still negotiating with several countries concerning TV rights, including the People's Republic of China, several Arab nations and at least two Caribbean countries. Quinn said that it was anticipated that those contracts would be completed within a few months.
Larry Drew tied the score 98-98 for Kansas City with 16 seconds left in regulation on a driving layup and Milwaukee failed to win the game. Jackson marched to Harper Johnson's 19-foot bounded back of the back at the rim at the buzzer.
Kansas City proceeded to take six leads in the overtime period as Eddie Johnson and Steve Johnson combined to score 10 points. But the Kings could pound their lead to more than two points, allowing Milwaukee to tie it six times.
KANSAS CITY. Mo. — Sidney Moncrief干掉 a pair of free throws with four seconds left in overtime to give the Milwaukee Bucks a 112-110 victory last night over the Kansas City Kings.
Marques Johnson tied it for a final time at 110-110 with 51 seconds left on a driving layup. Billy Knight, Kansas City's best free throw shooter this season with an 87 percent conversion rate, missed two foul shots with nine seconds left and the Bucks then set up for a final shot.
Moncrief was fouled by Mark Oberling as he drove toward the basket from the right wing and he sank both knees to give Milwaukee its only lead of the upertime period, which also ended the Bucks three-game losing streak.
Bucks defeat KC,112-110 in overtime
Marques Johnson and Bridgeman finished with 23 points apiece. Moncrief cut
By United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Milwaukee's Alton Lister leaps high to block a shot by Kansas City's Eddie Johnson during first-half action at Kemper Arena. The Bucks broke a three-game losing streak by defeating the Kings 112-110 last night.
Mike Woodson scored 19 points and Eddie Johnson 17 to pace the Kings.
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