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Olympic gold. The young cyclist is sponsored by the Murray Manufacturing National Bicycling Team.

WEIGHTLIFTING. Albert Hood,20, stands a good chance to make the weightlifting team in the 56 kilos (123 pounds) snatch and clear and jerk categories. Hood won the Junior Pan American Games championship this fall. Hood also won his class at the National Sports Festival in Colorado Springs. At present, the young lifter has a better than 50 percent chance to make the weightlifting team.

VOLLEYBALL. While the men's volleyball team has no likely prospects, the women's team likes to brag that its Black members are the top volleyballers in the country, if not the world. Flo Hyman, 29, at 6 feet 5 inches, in fact, is touted as the best this country has to offer. Hyman spikes the ball at better than 100 miles per hour. America's team is considered first-rate, but it will probably have to go up against a tough China team to win the gold. Rita Crockett, some think, is the best all-around athlete on the team. From a standstill she can jump 42 inches straight up. Rose Magers also stands a good chance to make the team. Damian Wooles, the executive assistant to the director of the U.S. Volleyball Assn., says he thinks Magers is "coming around" and that her prospects look good.

BASKETBALL. Three Black basketball standouts have a good chance of making the Olympic squad. They are Micheal Jordan, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Wayman Tisdale, from the University of Oklahoma; and Same Perkins, also from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jordan was chosen the Sporting News collegiate player of the year in 1983. Tisdale played well at the Pan American Games this summer where the United States won the gold. Perkins was also a solid player at the Pan American Games. All are likely to make the team. Other possibilities include Michael Cage, from San Diego State, Ed Pinckney, from Villanova University; Fred Reynolds, from the University of Texas at El Paso; Greg Stokes, from the University of Iowa; Leon Wood, from Cal State at Fullerton. George Raveling, coach at the University of Iowa, will be the team's assistant coach to Bob Knight, from Indiana University.

SOCCER. "There is one Black player who is an excellent candidate," to make the soccer team, says Richard Rottkov, public relations director for the U.S. Soccer Federation. That player is Alfonso Smith Jr.,20, who is currently on the University of Tampa's soccer team. Smith is from Ellenwood, Ga.
  The record books are replete with the accomplishments of Black Olympians, and this time around, too, they will leave their mark.

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Caption: Carl Lewis stirs up the dirt- and another medal in the long jump.

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Caption: Edwin Moses went on to win the 400 meter hurdless.

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