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ABBEY Special to The Jewish News ❑ tie racks UNDER $60 The Olympics' Jewish Athletes Look To Their Sports Future CALL 473-0001 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