Show I i Russia Wins Again Ag n The United States Olympic team earn so outstanding in track and field events in the recent Tokyo games ganies ended second to the Russians' Russians once again in the number of medals won DESPITE many gallant efforts efforts efforts ef ef- forts the Americans won fewer few few- fewer er cr medals than the Russians because of our teams team's weakness weak weakness weakness ness in gymnastics women's events etc Surprisingly the United States turned up weak in boxing this year also As a result after leading in total medals during most of the games the United States' States team 1 fell ell behind in the last 48 hours of f the four year event and came in in second in medals EVEN THOUGH this was a disappointment the arc ace o 0 m m- m of Americans were many and great And the United Unit- Unit V ed cd States team won more medals medals medals med- med als than the American team won von in Rome in 1960 In addition addi- addi lion tion Americans won more gold medals in the 1964 than athletes from Tom any other country Thus our effort in 1964 was an improvement over 1960 but it was still not what it should be in some of the popular less sports A way must be found to make the US U.S. team more i competitive in these less i popular popular pop pop- ular sports so that heroic cf- cf I forts of oC so many in the first ten days of the games in in building building build- build i 1 ing a lead for the US U.S. will not i always be cancelled out by almost al- al j most most complete complete shut-outs shut in canoeing canoeing canoeing ca- ca wrestling weightlifting weight-lift- weight r I in ing gymnastics etc I II I |