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W

hether the Jewish
athletes who repre-
sented America in
the Seoul Olympics return as
team members in 1992 in
Spain or not, all have special
memories of this year's
games.
But for some, the positive
memories are clouded — at
least for now — with disap-
pointment at not winning
medals.
Only Mike Milchin, a pit-
cher on the . baseball team,
had the thrill of winning a
gold medal and being on the
victory stand when the "Star
Spangled Banner" was
played.
Other American Jews who
experienced a similar thrill
were bronze medal winners
Brad Gilbert in tennis, An-
drew Goldman in sailing and
Seth Bauer in rowing.
A native of Richmond, Va.,
Milchin expects to sign a pro-
fessional baseball contract
after next spring's campaign
at Clemson University.
Milchin, Clemson's regular
first baseman, best hitter and
occasional relief pitcher, suf-
fered his only pitching loss _
during the Olympics.
"It was a meaningless first-
round game with Canada," he
said, "and it was on an
unearned run on an error.
But it was my only loss in
'
some 50 games we played!
Although that was the on-
ly time Milchin took the
mound during the Olympics,
he noted, "I was ,up and
throwing in the bullpen in
three of our other four games.
In the championship game, I
started throwing from the
fourth inning on."
Milchin received many pit-
ching tips from the Olympic
team's pitching coach, Skip
Bertman, head coach at Loui-
siana State University and
also Jewish. But Milchin
doesn't care whether he plays
first base or pitches — as long
as he gets to the major
leagues.
"I'll probably remember the
thrill of getting a gold medal
more ten years from now," he
admitted. "Because I've
dreamed of playing profes-
sional baseball for so long,
that's always been a higher
goal for me than an Olympic
medal.
"It's hard for me to imagine
athletes in the ,ether sports
training ten years to compete
in one race!"

Mike Milchin wants a baseball contract.

Judo player Bob Berland, a
silver medal winner in 1984,
dislocated a finger in training
with a teammate, which left
him fighting virtually one-
handed. "I lost to a West Ger-
man I'd fought twice before,
and beat him within 90
seconds both times," he said.
His opponent won the silver
medal.
"So I'm not satisfied, even
though I did try to the best of
my ability under the cir-
cumstances. But I should
have been the finals. All the
sacrifice and time . . . I'm still
trying to deal with it.
"On the positive side, you
get very patriotic when they
come in with that-flame, light
the torch, raise the flag. You
look at the other American
athletes, know the whole
world is looking on, thinking
about the international good
will.
"I'm not bitter, just
frustrated!"
His judo teammate and
friend, Steve Cohen, also suf-
fering from an injury, won his
first match and then lost.
"Just going out on the mat
to represent your country in
the Olympics means you've

achieved a life-long dream,"
Cohen said. "But the dream
turned out just a little disap-
pointing!'
Fencer Paul Friedberg also
cited the feeling of "hap-
piness, friendliness and inter-
national brotherhood" at the
closing ceremonies and was
one of the American athletes
under the banner in the open-
ing ceremonies. That antic
was criticized by Koreans,
whom Friedberg said were
unusually quiet at all the
events "except when I was
watching "a boxing event;
every time the Zimbabwean
struck his Japanese foe, the
Koreans cheered!'
America's male fencers
wound up seventh of 11 na-
tions, "slightly better than
anticipated" and Friedberg
was unhappy that he wasn't
able to win a match against
Germany, which the U.S.
needed to advance to the final
round of six nations.
The U.S. women fencers
finished sixth of 12, "Our best
finish ever," said a happy
Elaine Cheris, the team's
oldest member at 42. Her per-
sonal thrill was winning
three of four matches against