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52 Friday, September 16, 1977 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Former Maccabia Star and Physician Working Hard
to Better Olympic Athletes' Performance, Health
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BY HASKELL COHEN
(Copyright 1977, JTA, Inc.)
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This corner has written in
the past about Dr. Irving
Dardik, an outstanding vas-
cular surgeon, who was a
track performer in past
Maccabiot and last summer
served as a physician for
the United States Olympic
team.
Irving and his brother,
Herbert, have cut quite a
niche out for themselves in
medicine in the devel-
opment of a coronary
bypass graft technique
using human umbilical
cords, for which they won
the American Medical Asso-
ciation's Hektoen Gold
Medal last year. That pro-
cedure is helping a lot of ar-
teriosclerosis patients lead
more active lives.
Now our young hero—he
is just past 40—is engrossed
in a program that aims to
improve the nation's health
using Olympic athletes as
"walking fitness labora-
tories." He has been placed
in charge of. the United
States Olympic Squaw Val-
ley, Calif. training camp
program to help prepare
young athletes for the
games in the Soviet Union
in 1980. His basic concern is
to see to it that the young
athletes serve as talking,
walking laboratories of
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Dr. Dardik has been ap-
pointed by the United
States Olympic Committee
to set up the first of several
sports medical institutions
at the training center in
Squaw Valley in order to
help Olympic caliber athlet-
es learn more about their
bodies and improve, second-
ly, the physical fitness of
the, nation as a whole.
"These Olympic athletes
are ordinary people. Ordi-
nary people who have tal-
ent. And they need to train
and learn to live with that
talent. We can learn a tre-
mendous amount from
them," Dr. Dardik claims.
Some 200 Olympic quality
athletes and coaches and
trainers come to the Squaw
Valley center and spend a
few days or a few weeks
there in an atmosphere that
is a combination of a col-
lege campus and a mon-
astery. Instead of the pot-
bellied type of instructor
one usually sees giving com-
mands to athletes in gymna-
siums, the athletes at the
Olympic Village respond to
a fellow by the name of Dr.
Gideon Ariel, a computer
scientist who hails original-
ly from Israel.
As a matter of fact, he
participated in the 1960 and
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The computer then ana-
lyzes the athlete's move-
ments step by step, and the
end product is a thick print-
out which compares the ath-
lete's maneuver with the
theoretically perfect man-
ner to perform the same
task. Actually the computer
demonstrates exactly how
and where the athlete
should change his style,
modify and improve his
technique, drop unneces-
sary movements, laterally,
etc.
Apparently this system
works, for earlier in the
year Dr. Ariel went to work
on Mac Wilkins, the discus
thrower, who came to his
laboratory at Amherst and
went through the gyrations
of the discus throw for the
benefit of Ariel's high speed
camera, which moves at a
rate of 10,000 frames-per-
second and analyzes, for ex-
ample, how a tennis ball
strikes a racket. (In case
you are really interested, a
tennis ball hits the strings
of a racket for only .004 sec-
onds, so that the thump felt
in the racket is not the ball,
it is the reaction of the
strings themselves which is
much more lasting.)
At any rate, Wilkins was
throwing poorly of late,
about 216 feet, and the com-
puter indicated he should
be throwing the discus 250
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1964 Olympiads as a discus
thrower for Israel and now
is involved in combining
sports in the field of biome-
chanics. Dr. Ariel is work-
ing closely with Dr. Dardik
and has discovered a meth-
od of taking motion pic-
tures of athletes performing
typical sports skills such as
a basketball player making
a jump shot, for example,
or a shot putter throwing
the put, and then trans-
lating critical body motions
involved on to a computer
grid.
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BUENOS AIRES—Five
members of a Jewish fam-
ily who were reported kid-
naped by 12 armed men al-
most three weeks ago in
northern Argentina are
under arrest on suspicion of •
having links with left-wing
guerrillas, according to the
Argentine army.
The case is causing con-
cern among Argentine
Jews, as it is seen to be
tied to the recent upsurge
of anti-Semitism in the coun-
try.
Meanwhile, President
Jorge Rafael Videla of Ar-
gentina. in a Rosh Hashana
greeting to the Jewish corn-
munity. addressed to Dr.
Nehemias Rexnizky, presi-
dent of the DAIA, said:
"I wish to express to you,
on this occasion. very spe-
cial wishes of peace and
well-being due to this com-
munity on this noble Argen-
tine soil which has received
it for a long time in its
midst. May I renew the as-
surances of my highest es-
teem."
feet. What happened was
that the camera spotted a
flaw in the way Wilkins'
left leg was working. The
flaw was corrected, and
two days later the athlete
broke the world's discus re-
cords with a 232 foot toss.
Dr. Ariel, who was helped
to a certain extent when he
attended college in the
United States as an under-
graduate by the United
States Committee Sports
for Israel., works together
with Dr. Dardik, and in con-
junction they are creating
new ways of developing a
sports medicine technology
that figures to pay off hand-
somely in the 1980 Games.
Dr. Dardik, who won
medals for running in the
sprints in the 1957 Mac-
cabia and then came back
in 1969 to win a good as a
member of a re earn,
believes that Olympic
sports medicine is very
much in its infancy. The
good doctor explained, "We
are trying to develop the
questions at Squaw Valley,
not just the answers. We
are trying to set up the
model. Not just a training
center, but a teaching cen-
ter as well."
He doesn't put down the
talent which has worked in
the U.S. in sports medicine
or sports science, but does
point out that the doctors
have never gotten their in-
formation across to the ath-
letes and coaches who have
been working all these
years with archaic meth-
ods.
Dr. Dardik feels that the
U.S., surprisingly, is far be-
hind other countries in this
program, pointing out that
he just returned from West
Germany where he worked
with orthopedists and car-
diologists who specialize in
sports medicine; He feels
that the program here
should not only be devel-
oping injury treatment
methods, but preventive
medicine as well. He illus-
trates by showing that
biomechanics can reveal
how a wrong movement
can result in a trauma over
a period of time.
It is Dr. Dardik's
that sports specialists
should be talking about nu-
trition, exercise, .phys-
iology, the psychology of
sports, pointing out that
when he was at the last
Olympics the athletes
would come up to him with
questions about training, nu-
trition, and about drugs.
That's when he got the idea
of talking to Tniteci
States Olympic Gs_ Alittee
about setting up the in-
stitutions because there are
so many things our people
just don't know about.
Dr. Dardik wants to
make certain that Dr
Ariel's work, as well as his
own, is not placed in the
"jock" category, but is a
stepping stone in training-
for the next Olympics. As a
matter of fact, he has an of-
fshoot program working al-
ready in his own back yard-,
in Englewood, N.J. where
he is using Olympic athlet-
es to work "one on one"
with juvenile diabetics.
With the help of various
medical agencies for dia-
betic kids, as well as other
ailing youngsters, and
through fitness -?raining pro-
grams conducted by the
Olympic athletes, the pro-
gram figures to expand on
a national scale with U.S-
Olympic Committee sanc-
tioned gyms under Dr. Dar-
dik's aegis springing up all
over the nation.
Thus far with diabetics
the side effects have been
working extremely well,
the youngsters' insuliit
needs have been lowered
sharply, and all of those
participating in the pro-
gram have felt better,
looked better and have dis-
played much greater self-
confidence as a result of
this Olympic-based fitness
program.
Judaism and Christianity
(Editor's note: This quiz is part of a series taken from
one of the various courses offered by the American Jewish
Committee's Academy for Jewish Studies Without Walls.) L
(Copyright 1977, JTA, Inc.)
Indicate by T or F whether the following statements are
true or false.
1. Paui considered himself a Pharisee.
2. Paul went first to synagogues to preach his message.
3. Paul saw Jews who kept the Law as more important
than gentiles who did not observe the Law.
4. Gentile Christianity always continued to have a second-
class position in the church.
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5. Christians view the messiah as someone who \
political redemption tq the Jewish people.
6. The concept of the messiah is absolutely necessary for
Christianity to be Christianity.
7. Christians see no connection between the heroes of the
Hebrew Bible and Christianity.
8. All mankind suffers from original sin because of the
transgression of Adam, according to Christian theology.
9. David Kimhi argues that the Bible should be under-
stood literally unless the simple meaning of the text is un-
tenable.
10. Jewish polemicists argued that since Jesus observed
the Law, present-day Christians should also observe it.
A nswers A
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