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American nightmare continues
HAVANA. Aug 12: The Pan American Games turned Into a near nightmare for the United States Sunday when Cuba's basebailers beat them tn the amost eagerly awaited contest f\f the Gaines and the Ame-^Hcans dropped the baton in the men's 100 meters relay, reports Reuter.
The setbacks allowed Cuba to go further ahead of the United States in gold medals. It left the hosts poised to replace the United States for the first time since the inaugural Games 40 years ago at the head of the gold medals table.
The athletics events ended Sunday with Cuba winning 18 gold medals, the United States nine, while Mexico and Brazil were equal third on six gold medals.
It was the first lime ever that Cuba had won more gold medals than the US in athlet tea.
Over the past week the Cubans have won In events form the 100 meters to the marathon and the high jump to the javelin.
In a fitting finale for the hosts, the Cubans, who had won the opening event, the marathon, also took the last athletic event when they
edged out the United States in the 400 meters men's relay.
It was the 100th gold medal won by Cuba. 20 ahead of the United States, with still a week of competition to go the hosts have already won more golds than al the last Pan American Games in Indianapolis four years ago.
President Fidel Castro, who has been given a major political boost by his athletes' success. punched the air in delight as the last Cuban Lazaro Martinez broke the tape.
Castro, struggling to preserve the Caribbean Island as one of the world's last orthodox communist states, has raced from venue to venue presenting medals
With many of their top track stars like Carl Lewis missing the Games to prepare for the world championships tn Tokyo later this month, the Americans have always seemed a step behind the host athletes.
The disaster for the US earlier in the men's 100 meters relay summed up the way the Inexperienced US team has performed at the Games since they started August 2
The Americans dropped the
baton at the last change over when they were leading by several yards allowing Cuba to win the gold medal.
The US has also been bothered by the heat and has complained about Erratic judging in some events.
But the Americans did not go down without a fight in the baseball clash which was watched by a record 60.000 crowd, some of whom waited was watched by get into the stadium.
The young American side, whose average age is only 20. went down by only 3-2 against a Cuban team that Included several players who have competed in two previous Pan American Games.
The US scored first in the top of the fourth inning but the Cubans came back to score two in the same inning and then went ahead in the fifth. The United States came back to score in the sixth to make the score 3-2 and in the eighth loaded the bases with no outs.
But a double play ended the fightback and Cuba s relief pitcher Omar Ojetc did not give up a hit in the ninth.
However Cuba and the United States could still fight for the gold medal because
both teams have already qualified for the semifinals.
Despite the closeness of the match there were no Incidents involving players or fans, continuing the good sportmanship which has been a feature of all Cuba-US match-ups during the games.
SWEET SOLACE
There was some solace for the United States on Sunday when their skeet shooting team set the only world record at the Games so far.
The US team of dean Clark. Bill Roy and Mike Schmidt beat by four points the previous record of 441 points set by Holland in Zagreb. Yugoslavia in 1989.
Not everything went Cuba's way on Sunday. Their veteran light welterweight champion Candelarlo Duvergel. who has won the last two Pan American Kid medals, tost on points t?
urto Rico's Anibal Acevedo.
The shock defeat denied Cuba the chance to win all the gold medals In boxing while their main rivals the United States have already been eliminated from four of the 12 weight divisions.