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Boxing
A terrific Olympic preview. Until US welterweight Mark Breland and Canadian light middleweight Shawn O'Sullivan hurt their hands, all 12 world amateur champions were going to be present. As usual, the US and Cuba will box for the gold in most events. Cuba, with five titlists, should dominate the upper weights. Still, look for at least three American champions in Steve McCrory (112), Floyd Favors (119) and Pernell Whitaker (132). With three-time Olympic champion Teofilo Stevenson out of shape and off the Cuban team, American heavyweight Tyrell Biggs could also break through.

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CYCLING. New Yorker Nelson Vails has been cycling most of his life. Vails, 23, who won a gold medal this year in the 1-kilometer sprint at the Pan American Games in Venezuela, says what he wants most now is to win the                 Continued on page 225


Basketball
The Americans sent a marginal team to the World University Games last month and were embarrassed by the Canadians. This one - with North Carolina's Michael Jordan and Sam Perkins and Oklahoma's Wayman Tisdale - will be stronger and quicker. Canada, Puerto Rico and Cuba are the prime barriers, but the US has won
seven of the eight Pan-Am titles. The women, beaten by Cuba last time, are coming off a two-point loss to the Russians in the World finals. Five members of the 1980 Olympic team (Denise Curry, Cindy Noble, Anne Donovan, Lynette Woodard and Lataunya Pollard) plus USC freshman Cheryl Miller will play here. They should win.

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Track and field
The varsity went to Helsinki for the world championships. Except for a dozen or so who'll do double duty (notably quartermiler Michael Franks, hurdlers Greg Foster, Willie Gault, Benita Fitzgerald and Sharrieffa Barksdale, high jumper
Dwight Stones, pole vaulter Jeff Buckingham, hammer throwers Dave McKenzie and Ed Burke, javelin thrower Rod Ewaliko, sprinter Flo Griffith and shot putter Denise
Wood), the second-string will be here. Still that should be enough to dominate proceedings, particularly in the women's events. The Americans may not win 25 of 39 gold medals, as they did at San Juan, but they'll easily grab the most.

[[image - DWIGHT STONES]]

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[[caption]] Emmit King, Carl Lewis, Willie Gault and Calvin Smith own the 400-meter relay world record. [[/caption]]

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[[caption]] Sydney Maree, a native South African, considered one of the world's top milers, is expected to have his American citizenship by the time of the
Olympic games. [[/caption]]

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