SPORTS Page 12 Tuesday, August 14, 1984 Kiall's last dive wins Olympic silver By PAUL HELGREN Bruce Kimball completed the comeback that began in late 1981 and dove his way to the silver medal in the 10-meter platform in the final day of Olympic competition Sunday. Kimball finished with 643.50 points, well behind gold medal winner Greg Louganis, who tallied a record 710.91. China's Li Kongzheng took the bronze with a score of 638.28 For a list of Wolverine medal winners, see page 11. KIMBALL WAS STUCK in third behind Li going into his final dive. But the Michigan junior earned five 9.5s and two 9.Os on a 2% somersault with a tuck to gain the second spot. It was a fitting end for an athlete who had come so far. While still in high school Kimball suffered an auto accident that tore his slight body to shreds. But just months later he was back on the board competing. His comeback left his competition amazed. "The Chinese divers were amazed when they saw him," said Kimball's mother Gail, before the Games, recalling his first inter- national meet after the accident. "They were told he wouldn't be diving anymore. They felt the scars on his face with their fingers. They weren't making fun of him. They were just amazed he could come back." After Sunday's competition the Chinese divers might have been wishing Kimball had given up the sport. Besides Li, Kimball also beat out China's Tong Hui, who finished four- th. After the meet was over both Kimball and Louganis said they would continue competing in international competition. So it appears that at least for a while the rivalry between these two Americans will continue. q i r The Michigan Daily Raising lHel By PAUL HELGREN Tired of Olympics?... ...Getreadyfor the real Game THANK GOD it's over. No more Mary Lou "I'm-so-cute-you- gotta-love-me" Retton. No more promos for the nauseatingly-patriotic "Call to Glory" (if you don't watch this show the implication is you must be anti-American). No more inane in- terviews, with questions like, "If Bobby Knight were an animal what would he be?" (oh, if only they had asked me). No more silly "sports" like team handball, rhythmic gymnastics (very suspect, what those girls do with that bowling ball), syn- chronized swimming and water polo. No more Olympics. It's get- ting close to the time when we should start thinking about real spor- ts - like football. Yes it's only 25 days until the season begins for Michigan football. To whet your gridiron appetite, here are some comments from coaches and players on the upcoming season. -Michigan coach Bo Schembechler on TV overexposure: "There are enough people that are lazy enough to say, 'Hey, man. Why fight the crowd? Go through all that? I'll just sit right here with a couple of beers, refridgerator close by. I don't have to go anywhere.' I'm concerned about that." -Iowa coach Haden Fry, on why the new TV package, which prominently features good teams and ignores poor ones, is good: "That's what makes America tick. They gotta expose the top ones. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. And that's the way it should be. That should motivate the poor to get their programs up there." Bookies counting on Tomczak -Ohio State quarterback Mike Tomczak on whether he feels pressure to return from his leg injury: "Outside of from the bookies, no." *Purdue coach Leon Burtnett on recruiting poor students to play football: "We recruit poor students. There's not a single coach that can stand here and say they don't. We all do. But we make sure we tell 'em that they're gonna be at the study table four nights a week and they're gonna attend class." *Rookie Indiana coach Bill Mallory on accusations that Iowa ran up the score against the Hoosiers last season (49-3): "Hell, if you get your ass kicked like that - you know, if they run it up, they run it up." - Mallory on whom his wife will root for in the Indiana-Michigan game. Mallory's sons, Mike and Doug play for the Wolverines: "She said me. She better. One of them (his sons) made the com- ment, 'It looks like we lost amother for a day."' 'Minnesota coach Lou Holtz on how tough it is to recruit in a cold- weather state: "I personally want to go to Alaska to recruit. Because I always thought it was easier to talk a young man into coming south to play school." 'More Holtz on recruiting: "We want to recruit local boys - from Florida." -Holtz on the progress of his Golden Gophers thus far: "I feel like the guy who's falling down a 20-story building. As he passed each floor he said, 'I'm doing okay so far."' Bo makes his pick -Illinois coach Mike White on his school's woes: "We had a tough stat in the Rose Bowl and it's been downhill from there." 'Michigan middle guard Al Sincich on Illinois' pnishment for recruiting violations: "You would have to think something was suspicious when Mike White came in three, four years ago and he changed the whole program around and won the Big Ten and got all the players he got. You know there has to be something crooked for that (to happen) . .. they deserved what they get." -Bo on who should be the favorite in the Big Ten: "You're asking me to single out one team in the Big Ten. I don't think I'm capable of doing that ... You want me to pick a football team? I'll pick it. Michigan." 'Michigan tight end Sim Nelson on who he thanks the most for his starting position at Michigan: "I thank God for giving me the talent to play . .. I thank Bo for giving me a grant in aid." rrrw Sports Information Michigan junior Bruce Kimball, shown here from a meet earlier this year, won the silver medal in 10-meter platform diving Sunday. Kimball was the eighth athlete associated with the University of Michigan to win an Olympic medal.