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"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. ... • 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.