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Show Olympic record of 13.3 in the high murdles. He finished fourth in Munich in 1979. He was involved in every Olympics sporting a U.S. team between 1964 and 1976. However, injuries have plagued some of his at- Olympic Notes Angolcs Olympic Tickets Will Be Costliest in History tempts. Los By JOE SARGIS UPI Sports Writer major sports events in the United States, tickets to the last World Series (professional while at baseball) went for As for - UnSAN FRANCISCO (UPI) less you have big bucks or are inclined toward such sports as archery, fencing, handball, field ' hockey, judo, shooting and soccer, start saving now to buy tickets to the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Next year's Games, to put it mildly, will favor corporate fat cats and business people on expense accounts. The little guy who likes good seats at the more popular events might be better off to stay home and catch it all on television. Without a doubt, the will be the history with for as much afternoon or ment. $25-3- 0, the Super Bowl (professional football) they had a top of $40. The only tickets in recent years that could be compared to the LAOOC 's top prices were for boxing title fights. Next year, baseball and tennis will be a part of the Games, officially listed as "demonstration sports." Tickets to the baseball tournament will be pegged from a low of $5 to a high of $20. The games will be played in Dodger Stadium, where the highest ticket for a regular season National League game goes for $6. As for tennis, if you want a centercourt ticket for all six days it will cost you $200. A similar ticket for Wimbledon, covering 13 days, goes for $230. Wealthy ticket buyers will also benefit from the "random selection process" to be used for events that are oversubscribed. The lottery-style drawings will start with those willing to pay the top prices, and those who don't get picked will automatically be bumped down a price category for the second and third drawings. Those seeking lower priced tickets will get just one chance. In addition, those able to pay more for "season passes" will have one more shot at selection. Finally, many on expense accounts will be able to write off their ticket purchases, an option' not available to the average fan. The LAOOC, according to its announcement, estimates that 70 percent of the tickets will be purchased by Americans. A total of 5.6 million will be sold, netting the committee $92 million. The only good news coming out of all this is that no one, not special interest groups nor politicians, will receive preferential Games most expensive in some tickets going as $95 for a single evening's entertain1984 The Los Angeles Olympic Or- ganizing Committee announced prices for the various events this week along with guidelines on how Americans can obtain tickets. Seats for the basketball, boxing, gymnastics and swimming finals cost $40, $60 and $95 each. Some tickets for some track and field finals are as low as $8, but others go as high as $60 apiece. As expensive as those events are, tickets for the opening and closing ceremonies will go from a low of $50 to a high of $200. So, if you will be at home watching those ceremonies, the most impressive show of all in an Olympics, when the television cameras pan the crowd rest assured there will be few "working stiffs" in the stands except newspeople covering the program. Of course, the LAOOC is defending its ticket prices, citing such things as the price structure at the Munich (1972) and Montreal (1976) Olympics, inflation and ticket costs at other world class events and sports finals. At Munich, the top ticket for the opening and closing ceremonies went for $50 and at Montreal it was $100. Los Angeles' top of $200 treatment. In that regard, every- one will have to obtain tickets through the specially set up mail order program. thus represents a 300 percent increase over Munich and 100 percent over Montreal. Inflation was at its worse in the years since Munich but it never reached 300 percent and currently, in the United States, it stands at somewhere between 5 percent. "We decided not to make allowances," said ' Harry Usher, the LAOOC 's and general manager. "Even the mothers, fathers, husbands and wives of the athletes must go through the system." Fine, but how about those prices, Harry? Where's the fairness for the little guy, who is the traditional backbone of sports? A hamstring problem So much for inflation and compar- isons to the two most recent Olympics, not counting the 1980 Games in Moscow. person makes the team, they should place first or second in the Olympic games, because the best hurdlers in the world come from the United States." Thursday, June 16, 1983 THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Page 9 and locating them properly, we air pollution is just one of the don't expect any dimunition in areas we expect people to make athletic performance due to air that extra effort." some He said local industries pollution." He also said "good citizenship of which are sponsors of the will certainly be called into play Games have already expressed a willingness to cooperate. here." Asked if he might be too optiThe voluntary five-poiplan mistic, Heinsheimer insisted: asks that power plants burn fuel; refinery production "People make an enormous effort during the Olympic Games. It be curtailed; use of solvents or costs a staggering amount of other agents that produce ozone-formimoney to put them on. Our reputahydrocarbons be reduced; tion as a city and as a country is air pollution reduction measures on the line. triggered by a second-stag- e smog "Everybody wants to make a alert be observed; and that vehivery big effort to cooperate and cle traffic be reduced. nt DOB'S Announces The we'll "good citizenship" plan should keep southern California skies smog-fre- e during the 1984 Olympics, pollution officials prent Hein-shem- er mammoth athletic competition would "in no way be affected by smog." He said the city's air quality would actually be comparable to that in Montreal during the 1976 Olympics, and better than at the recent Games in Tokyo and dict. smog health alerts in many areas, the Air Quality Management District Tuesday urged residents, businesses and industry to abide by the voluntary plan in a massive effort to make the Games smog-les- s for both athletes and the e first-stag- Sleeping Bag ARMSTRONG it it RUSS WINNER it Rolail SALE $5.00 n.98 Day Packs (Pro Modal) Day Pack (DoluxoModol) $24.00 $18.00 $9.88 $7.88 Duffle Bag (gym ft school bag) Boy Scout Frame Back Pack $24.00 '9.88 '34.50 $70.00 (ProModoll-Typo- ) BOY SCOUT AND BACKPACKER SUPPLIES: Retail SALE 60 $1.00 $1.50 12 28 38 $.80 $7.80 418 North State. Orem DIVISION Of PH. 7 mi SAG, 154 W. Center. Prove 373-120- 1 Jio SEE THEM MADE HERE: Sleeping bags, down pillows and comforters, custom flys, custom tent, and other products. 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"If I can get back to my old form, or even to 80 or 90 percent of where I was, I should be able to make the team. "Once I make the team, or a knocked him out of the preliminaries in 1964 and a ruptured knee tendon hindered him in 1975. In 1980, Davenport participated in the Winter Olympics as a member of the U.S. bobsled team. He said he would leave for training in Florida within a few weeks, running in the sand to develop his leg muscles, then head five-poi- run the on to Europe to 110-met- er Fabric, Cord, Webbing Retail SALE! $50.00 $ 5.00 $24.50 $ 2.48 $165.00 $99.50 2Ft. 5 Ft. $2.48 $5.00 Former Hurdle Champ Sets Sights on Another Gold ran athlete a each former age NEW ORLEANS (UPI) 40, At Wil- gold-medal- ist lie Davenport is not content to be . the first man to compete in five he is setting his sights Olympics on Los Angeles in 1984. Davenport said Tuesday he was working to qualify for the U.S. Olympic team in the high hurdles, even though he had not run in competition since July 110-met- er 1977. "It's hard on the body, really, just to get back into condition," he said. "I think in track and field, or in any athletic event, it's always been my belief that 80 percent is in the mind and the other 20 percent was physical. "The mind was no problem. Now. I just have to get out there and get my body back in physical condition." about The said he slow two miles morning one to warm up, followed by a fast one and spent three afternoons a week in the weight room building up his strength. In between those two workouts, and during any other free time, he works on quickness. Davenport said he still had not timed himself in the hurdles. In fact, he said, he had always trained more against his own sense of challenge than against a stopwatch. "You feel what you need," he said. "I get out there and just do it. 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