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champion in the 800 meters until
making aliyah.
One of the major problems facing
the Israeli and other Jewish athletes
is the overwhelming hospitality prof-
fered by the local Jewish community.
Mission chief Lalkin has counted
some 430 invitations to receptions,
tours, exhibitions and religious serv-
ices, but he has had to decline most of
them.
"Our team is on a 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
training schedule, although much of
the time is eaten up by the long dis-
tances and travel time between the
various training venues," he said.
However, groups of athletes and
officials have been attending Shab-
bat services at different synagogues,
two memorial services for the 11 vic-
tims of Munich, and a banquet bene-
fitting the Hebrew University and
Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
Prayers for the slain athletes
will also be recited at many Califor-
nia synagogues tonight, but petitions
to mark the Games' opening cere-
mony with a short memorial prayer
were turned down by both the local
and international Olympic commit-
tees.
One of the more interesting
sidelights of the Games is an exhibi-
tion on "Jews in Olympics," on , which
the Southern California Jewish His-
torical Society worked for two years.
During that time, the society's
researchers identified, obtained
photos and collected information on
130 Jews from 18 nations, who have
won a total of 210 medals since the
first modern Olympiad in 1896.
Thirty-nine of the medalists re-
presented the United States, fol-
lowed by Hungary with 28. AmOng
individuals, American swimmer
Mark Spitz tops the list with 11 med-
als (1968 and 1972 Games), closely
trailed by Hungarian gymnast
Agnes Keleti with 10 medals (1952
and 1956).
The very first American Jewish
gold medal winner was Myer Prins-
tein, who won the triple jump at the
1900 Games in Paris, taking a silver
in the running broad jump for good
measure.
In the Brit,ish section of the ex-
hibit, a dramatic photo blowup shows
100 meter champ Harold Abrahams
— the hero of the film Chariots of Fire
— breasting the tape at the 1924
Games in Paris.
By sheer percentages, probably
the best Jewish showing was at the
very first Games in Athens in 1896.
Among the 300 athletes from 13
countries who participated (corn-
pared to 9,000 from 142 countries in
Los Angeles), five Jews won a total of
11 medals, including nine gold. Most
of the Jewish honors were garnered
by gymnasts from Germany and
swimmers from Hungary and Au-
stria.
The Israeli team
M embers of the Israeli
Olympic team are:
Yachting: Eldad
Amir, Yehuda Atedji, Shimshon
Broman, Eitan Fridlander, Yoel
Sela.
Track & Field: Yitzhak
Ben-Molech, Mark Handelsman,
Maya Bentzur, Arye Gamliel,
Sabag Shemtov, Yehuda Zadok.
Fencing: Nilli Drori, Shlomo
Eyal, Moshe Chumut, Haim
Hatoel, Lydia Hatoel, Itzhak
Hitoel.
Boxing: Yehuda Ben Haim,
Shlorno Niazov.
Shooting: Yair Davidovitz,
Itzchak Yonassi, Gary Aramist.
Weightlifting; Meir Daloya.
Gymnastics: Nancy
Goldsmith, Liat Haninovits,
Yohanan Moyal, Limor Fridman,
Yaacov Levy.
Swimming: Yoram Kochavy,
Hadar Rubinstein, Eyal Shtig-
man, Yaron Eilati.
Judo: Eddy Koaz, Yona Mel-
nik, Moshe Ponte.
Canoeing: Aviram Mizrahi.
Athletics: Zehava Shmuel.
Tennis: Amos Manddorf.
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Jews continued to do well until
World War II but since then, despite
brilliant individual exceptions like
Mark Spitz and Polish sprinter Irena
Kirszenstein, the Jewish role has
gradually declined.
One of the reasons, of course, is
the Holocaust, which wiped out an
entire generation of sportsmen and
their future successors. However, the
drop among American Jewish
athletes is attributed by sports histo-
rian Eisen to what he calls the rule of
"ethnic succession."
He illustrates the rule by the 6"
history of boxing in this country, in
which the lowest and "hungriest"
socio-economic group, usually recent
immigrants, tried to escape the
ghetto through fistic prowess.
In the late 19th Century, it was
-the Irish, followed by the Italians
and, in the 1920s, a whole lineup of
superb Jewish boxers. As the Jews
moved up, socially and economically,
they in turn were replaced by the
blacks and Eisen predicts that their
leadership, in turn, will be taken
over by even "hungrier" Spanish-
Americans.