Sport: A Resounding Chorus of Maybes

Support for boycotting the Moscow Olympics is slow to gather

With less than four months to go before the Moscow Olympics, just about the only people sweating harder than would-be Olympic athletes are the American officials trying to keep them from going. Last week the U.S. pressed its boycott campaign while plans for a counter-Olympics inched along and undecided nations continued to pass the baton. Among the week's setbacks, standoffs and small triumphs:

> In Washington, about 100 athletes, coaches, trainers and sports officials invited to the White House to discuss the boycott greeted...

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