Richard Pound, vice president of the International Olympic Committee, said Sunday the IOC would decide three months before the 1988 Olympic Games on withdrawing from Korea if the political turmoil continues. ”We`re really 15 months away from the event,” said Pound, appearing on ”Meet the Press.” ”I think it would be very premature to even consider the possibility of having to move the Games.” Pound said the committee would monitor the situation in South Korea, where protests against the government of President Chun Doo-hwan entered a 12th day Sunday with clashes between demonstrators and police.
World marathon champion Rob de Castella of Australia won the Great North Run half-marathon in Gateshead, England, surviving a bout of jet lag and a temporary disqualification. De Castella, who arrived Saturday from his training camp in Denver, cut the number on his running shirt in order to carry less weight, but flouted the rules. At first he was disqualified but later was re-instated by the organizers and picked up the $15,000 guarantee and prize money. The Australian completed the 13-mile course in 1 hour 2 minutes 4 seconds. He was 24 seconds ahead of runner-up Allister Hutton of Scotland. Defending champion Lisa Martin of Australia won the women`s race in 1:09:47. Norway`s Grete Waitz finished 51 seconds back.
Geovani Silva scored on a 40-yard shot in the 69th minute to give Vasco Da Gama of Brazil a 2-1 upset of Rosario Central of Argentina in the championship of the first Los Angeles Gold Cup Invitational Soccer Tournament.
Carl ”the Truth” Williams (18-2) took control early and stopped Bert Cooper (16-2) at the beginning of the eighth round of a scheduled 12-round United States Boxing Association heavyweight title fight in Atlantic City. Cooper`s trainer, former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier, refused to allow him to answer the bell. . . . Darrin Van Horn (23-0) overcame a flurry of punches from Luis Santana in the fourth round to take a unanimous decision in a 10-round junior middleweight boxing match in Lexington, Ky.
The report by a United Methodist panel on the pay-for-play football scandal at Southern Methodist University, which named the officials who continued paying athletes even though the school already was on probation for improper payments, could lead to reopening the NCAA investigation of the school`s football program, according to David Berst, NCAA director of enforcement. He added he`s not sure further sanctions would serve any purpose. The football program was suspended for one year by the NCAA for recruiting violations and placed on probation until 1990.
Groovy, with Angel Cordero Jr. riding, raced six furlongs over a muddy track in 1:07 4/5 to establish a track record while winning the $108,800 True North Handicap for 3-year-olds and up at Belmont Park in New York. The time bettered Best By Test`s 1986 mark by one-fifth of a second.
Mark Roth had a six-game pinfall total of 1,402 to take the first-round lead in the $125,000 Columbia 300 Professional Bowlers Association Open in Seattle. Tribune sportswriter John Leptich won first place for best continuous coverage in the 10th Professional Soccer Reporters` Association writing contest. Leptich was second in the news/game story category for a piece on the Sting`s response to new coach Erich Geyer, and second in best feature story with last summer`s recollection of the 1950 United States World Cup team.
Janet Evans won two races to run her victory total to four events in three days at the Mission Viejo (Calif.) Swim Meet of Champions. Evans, swimming for the Fullerton Aquatics club, won the women`s 400-meter freestyle in 4 minutes, 15.68 seconds, and the 200-meter backstroke with a time of 2:20.56. She had won the 400-meter individual medley Friday night, after finishing first in the 800-meter freestyle in Thursday`s opening day of the competition. Other women`s event winners were Suki Brownsdon of the University of Calgary, who took the 100-meter breaststroke in 1:13.71; and Jen Johnson of the Cardinal
(Stanford) swim club, who won the 100-meter butterfly in 1:02.31. In the men`s events, Matt Biondi of Golden Bear (Cal) edged Tom Jager in the 50-meter freestyle with a time of 23.52 to Jager`s 23.61.
