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The Black Olympiai
heavyweight
have been
graduates of the Olympic
experience: Muhammad Ali
(Cassius Clay as an Olym1960;
Joe Frazier,
George Foreman, ^
1968; Leon Splnks, 1976, I
and Floyd Patterson, 1952, I
who won an Olympic cham- I
pionship as a middleweight I
the
heavyweight class when he
turned pro,
Patterson is retired and I
residing in New York, while I I
George Foreman, also I
retired from the ring, is a
preacher Houston,
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The Spinks brothers are
still battling for the cash in KB
the pro ranks while, for the A ^
most part, the others have %3flL jRBfcp
retired or just called it quits rF^?~
after brief stints as profes- , J 'J
sionals. i |
Ray Seales, who won a L
gold medal in the 1972
Olympics and attained the V ^
North American Boxing
Federation middleweight titie
in 1981, has had pro* I
bably the worst luck of any HH
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cx-L/iympic ooxer. A
former middleweight champion,
he now legally blind
with no in his eye ^
only his gMB
right eye, according to his I
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Tacoma, Wash. Only 30,
Seales early last year an- fM
nounced his retirement I
because of his vision pro- fc pB I
blems. He had three operations
for detached retinas
before making the decision I
to
Robert Gault, BHHHHHIHHH
61, who coached the U.S.
Olympic Boxing Team in Cftssius Clay, now kne
1968 in Mexico, says all Olympics. All won the
Olympic fighters "try to get heavyweight champions
the gold (medal) beause it is
the path to the real gold." ranks. This has been the
Boxers, as Gault sees it, trend for most of the' ring
have learned that the Olym- champions since television
pics is the way to make big scaled the pro purses for timoney
fast, so if they are tie fights to such lofty
fortunate enough to win, heights,
they invariably seek the Gault, who now operates
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tie and he handed George a tournaments in 1950-51.
tiny American flag to hold Lee stayed in boxing, si
over his head on the victory ving as a member of C<
stand. umbia Boxing Commissi)
The incident came several for 14 years and using 1
days after Tommie Smith spare time to serve as t
and John Carlos, medal coach of several commun
winners in the 200 meters, teams in the amateur rani
| had used black-gloved clen- Currently, Lee
ched fists to give a black employed in the Radiolo
u_ power salute as "The Star- Defense Office of t
Spangled Banner" was District of Columbia ai
played and they stood on resides in northwe
the victory stand. Washington.
Gault says he simply felt Another Washingtoni
"that was not the time or was on th^ team u/ith i #
place to wash our linen.... 1 He was James (Jim) Bra
had compassion for Smith's dock, who competed in t
and Carlos' feelings, and weightlifting class, winni
they understood it, but it a runner-up medal. Bra
was just the wrong place." dock works at the Libra
Carlos, who now works of Congress,
in Los Angeles as a member Next week: Basketb
of the Olympic Organizing alumni and a look
Committee for the 1984 outstanding local athletes
Games, is still a friend and ^^
frequently calls him, Gaultj
says.
The first Black OLympicl, : \A/F
competitor to win the light- VV L
heavyweight championship A Pf
did not cash in on hi^ box- Hvl
ing talent. He is Washingto- v q a a
nian Norvell Lee, a former [jLr
Howard University boxer . * .
who captured the light- IN 7
heavyweight Olympic
crown at Helsinki, Finland,
in 100
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Significantly, Lee was QA A
awarded the Val Barker
Trophy as the outstanding I |W| A I
performer in the boxing IVirM
division, winning over such Q I A
fighters as Davey Moore,' DLr
Floyd Patterson and li yi A |
Sweden's Ingemar * K IVIMl
Johansson, who later
became the world
heavyweight champion.
Prior to his Olympic
triumph, Lee had been
CIAA champion in 1949,
and scored big wins in the \ J
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and the National AAU
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