Borzov ‘back’
NZPA Montreal The Russian sprinter. Valery Borzov, looking relaxed and smiling, yesterday described rumours that he had left his team and might stayin Canada after the Montreal Olympics as "a lot of rubbish.” In an interview with NZPA in the Olympic Vil-
'lage, the 26-year-old Borzov, who on Saturday lost his ' 100-metre Olympic sprint i crown, said the rumours “are of no interest to me at all." He added: “I came here to take part in the Games, Who needs this sort of intervention?” His trainer (Mr Valentin Petrovsky) pointed at the [sprinter and said: “you can see what these stories are worth. Here he is.”
I Borzov was speaking in Russian at an open-air club set up by the Soviet delegation on a rooftop alongside their quarters at the village. It was a relaxed scene in the club, where Borzov was watching a television relay with other members of the team of athletics events at i the Montreal Stadium (nearby.
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