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Show ADAV. August SI Surltl Swrt; :Tw SortJ 12 14 THE HKRAlD Prcvo. I'tah. n Too Ten .r.T wt; ITcT? 1 ipri; y w-- wTxMl j i - AnnfinpQAR i rx Score ..f ii----. 11 V i. y- -v 10 During TOP TEN Sports Back To School Anniversary Sale! s. A DOOR CRASHER! 1 H . -- ' fj '1'""" ' L Wild Day on Oly Track - r ANGELES (UPI) Mary Decker and Henry Marsh, two of the finest track athletes America has produced over the last decade, saw their Olympic dreams shattered Friday night as they lay on the ground in agony to climax one of the wildest days in the history of the Summer Games. On a day at 'he Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum that was filled with protests, appeals, counter-protest- s and sudden injuLOS 4 A. V" in running garb darted onto the track during the steeplechase. He was appre- hended shortly before Marsh, who finished fourth, collapsed from a recent virus he has had and was taken away in an ambulance. the women's In 3,000 m i I S Q Regular n 99 (TT I y " Lr::x; cT7 r 1.1 final, Decker led the very bunched pack through the early going. Just past the mark, Budd took a slight lead over Decker and as they came off the curve, Budd appeared to move in towards the inside and contact between her and Decker caused Decker to go down, falling very hard on her left side. She did not get up and the race became one between Budd, Mari-ci- a Puica of Romania and Wendy Sly of Britain. Budd began to fall back on the last lap, leaving the race to Puica and Sly. On the last 200, Puica kicked away from Sly, gaining a wide victory in 8:35.98. Williams caught Budd with 200 meters left to gain the bronze. Mort Tenner, competition director of athletics, said Budd. was reinstated because the jury of appeals "does not hold Zola Budd responsible for what happened in the race. In some races, things happen that are nobody's fault." ? ' Decker cries leaving the track. meter relay team survived a protest by the West German team this year when she quickly gained British citizenship in order to compete in the Olympics. Budd was at first disqualified for the contact but was later reinstated in seventh place by the jury of appeals. In other developments: the American men's 4 x 400- - for crossing lanes. American Kim Turner won a protest to dissolve a dead heat for the bronze medal in the hurdles. Despite the presence of Secret Service men swarming about the stadium because of the nu 100-met- er Decker Cries as Dream Shattered - think I was finally getting ANGELES (UPI) Mary Decker tried to keep a brave face but she couldn't hold back the Budd's left leg and the Eugene, Ore. runner tumbled off the track into the infield. revealed a pulled muscle in her left hip. "Zola Budd tried to cut in without being ahead and I think her foot hit me," Decker said. "To try to keep from pushing her, I fell. Now that I think about it, I should have pushed her. But if I did push her, I could see tomorrow's headlines: Decker Pushes Zola.' I don't know if it was inexperience or what. She was not in front. The rules say you have to be a full stride in front and she wasn't. She was nowhere near passing me." the chance..." Shortly thereafter, Decker cried when a reporter praised her for her courage in returning to the interview tent and she was carried away by her fiance, British discus thrower Richard Slaney. Decker, who missed the last three Olympics because of injuries and the U.S. boycott, and South AfriBudd, the can expatriate, were battling for the lead with a little more than three laps to go when Budd, running alongside Decker, apparently tried to cut lo the inside. tears. "I guess myself and the i 1 30.00 SAVE - ( I ) 1 iAiiniiMiPiiir uprii SPORTCOURT ALL JPURcha's Ik H -- TT J if L?f fc. jLfHisADt V4 1,700-met- er LOS Regular 57.00 v bare-cheste- ries, the incidents involving stirred controversy pp) tator dressed Decker and Marsh served once again to illustrate the fine line between athletic perfection and bodily harm. Both Decker and Marsh have been among the world s leaders in their respective events but have been plagued by bad fortune. Both were affected by the 1980 U.S.-le- d boycott of the Moscow Olympics and have fought back numerous times from debilitating injuries. Decker's injury, a muscle pull in her left hip, was caused when collided in the 3,000-metfinal with Zola Budd, the barefoot teenager from South Africa who tn RON GUIDRY merous dignitaries in attendance, security was breached twice at the Coliseum, once when a Budd supgrass-skirte- d porter ran onto the track after the 3,000 and again when a spec- - "v- - iJb. rxr-- r A,ar i f .hi x v After a collision with Zola Budd (in lead), Mary Decker sprawls on the sideline as the field passes her in the 3,000 meter. Marsh, Decker Denied v v topts ' At M Olym- pics have not had a very good relationship, the way things have been going," America's premier women's distance runner said Friday night after a collision with Zola Budd and a fall knocked her out of a chance at her first Olympic gold medal. 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