European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday july 22,1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 19barrowman splashes to record by John Nelson Seattle apr a Mike Barrowman emphatically stamped his approval on the Goodwill games on Friday breaking his world record in the 200-meter breaststroke. Barrowman smashed the record by i.35 seconds with a time of 2 minutes ii,53 seconds. The 21-year-old from Potomac md., originally set the record at the 1989 Long course nationals and broke it at the �?T89 pan Pacific championships. A coming into this meet people expected me to drop the record a Little bit but i done to think anybody expected this a Barrowman said. Someone asked me what i would like to happen and i said i was thinking around 2 12.�?� Kirk Stackle of Penas Quitos calif., and Sergio Lopez of Spain also went under the old record in 2 12.24. Both were awarded Silver medals. It was a rousing Start to the swimming at the new King county aquatic Center where two races earlier Matt Biondi beat Tom Jager for the first Gold medal of the Goodwill games. Biondi who won five Gold medals at the Seoul olympics two years ago swam the fifth fastest time Ever in beating his archrival in the 50-meter freestyle swimming. Biondi won in 22.10 seconds an Goodwill games Jager was second in 22,31, off his world record of 21.81. It was Only the seventh time Biondi has beaten Jager in 19 meetings in this event. Vladimir Tkachenko of the soviet Union was third in 22.57. A i think in order for our race to be a marketable race and something that is exciting people have to walk into the stadium not knowing who is going to win a Biondi said. A a that a not the Case if Tom continues to walk away with the first places. A i think it is Good for the sport and Good for me to beat  Janet Evans a triple Gold medallist in Seoul won the 800 freestyle in a slow 8 28.47, easily out swimming three East germans. Still left to be answered at these second Goodwill games a can the United states avenge its olympic basketball loss to the soviets a will Carl Lewis beat Leroy Burrell in their first meeting of 19907 a is Randy Barnes ready for another world shot put record a Why Are so Many athletes coming to Seattle As Competition began at the games a local newspaper observed a for better or worse we be got Goodwill games ii the event nobody a least of All Seattle knows what to make  its sure not the olympics or britons Steve cram world record Holder in the mile and Linford Christie olympic Silver medallist at 100 meters would t have skipped the meet to train for the european championships. It s not the world championships or minor injuries and infirmities would t have sidelined such not cables As Steve Lewis olympic Gold medallist at 400 meters Butch Reynolds world record Holder at 400 meters Middle distance Champion said Wouita of Morocco or Mary Slaney americans top woman Middle distance runner for a  years ago the Goodwill games were held for the first time in Moscow. The soviets and americans had t met since the 1976 Montreal olympic games because they had taken turns boycotting two subsequent olympics. They needed a stage on which to renew their rivalry. The Seoul olympics two years ago settled that. A in 1986, the cold War still gripped International politics. Nuclear arms treaties were out of the question and president Reagan had called the soviet Union the a evil  soviet a a glasnost and the startling political changes in Eastern Europe have changed that. Speaking at the opening of a soviet american Exchange Center Friday the Rev Jesse Jackson declared that the games opening will go Down in history As the end of the cold War. A today the. Whole world gets the word a he said. A the cold War is Over peace is upon  flanked by a soviet american girls choir Jackson told the americans in his audience to hug a soviet. A i hugged a russian and i hugged an american a he said. A i found that each had a heartbeat and a soul and  All that considered what s he reason for these games now Quot the athletes like the Competition a said Ted Turner one of the founders of the games and president of Turner broadcasting corporation which televised them nationally. Perhaps its that simple. A they certainly fill a need for . Olympians Quot said Pete Cava a spokes Man for the athletics Congress americans National governing body of track and Field. Quot the year before the olympics you have the world championships. The year after you have the world cup. This is kind of a Down year especially for americans Quot sets Mark Britain a Steve Backley grimaces after setting the world javelin record of 298 feet 6 inches in London Friday. London apr Britain a Steve Backley took Back the world javelin record Friday with a throw that was More than 4 feet longer than the previous record. Backley Sheave of 298 feet 6 inches was the first to break the 90-meter Barrier of 295-3. Less than a week ago Czechoslovakia a Jan Zelozny eclipsed backs Eye a previous world Mark with a throw of 294-2 in Oslo Norway. On Friday the briton used the Nemeth javelin he had earlier criticized. Zelozny was there to see it competing against Backley at an International Amateur athletic federation grand prix meet at Crystal Palace after the throw Backley said a i always said that he had borrowed the record from me. I knew i would get it Back and it was great to do it Here in front of the British  Zelezny a Best reply Friday was 281-7. While a packed Crystal Palace crowd awaited the attack on the menus world javelin record three British track speedsters and a Trio of kenyan 800-meter runners kept them buzzing. Europe s Linford Christie ended a losing Streak by winning the 100 meters countryman Jon Regis stormed to Victory at 200 meters in 20.32 and welshman Colin Jackson ran the fastest 110-meter hurdles on British soil 13.09. The kenyan Trio of Steve Ole Maral olympic Champion Paul Nereng and Nixon Kip Otich ran away with the 800 meters to Dampen the Hopes of scotsman Tom Mckean. But the javelin head to head had the crowd excited. After Zelezny had opened with a no throw Backley had the fans roaring with a heave of 283-5. He followed it with 281-9,292-8 and then the world record throw. All his throws beat the Best Zelezny could manage. The briton who usually uses a Sanvik javelin revealed that he switched to the same Nemeth Spear Zelezny used to set his Mark in Oslo. The Nemeth is rated aerodynamically better but Backley has his reservations. A i picked it because everyone else was using it Quot he said. �?o1 used it for the fourth throw and look what . After five successive defeats in three weeks Christie surged past former world record Holder Calvin Smith to win the 100 meters in 10.18. The american rocketed from the blocks to Lead by a meter but could do nothing As Christie a Power took him Clear from the mid race Point. Smith clocked 10.22, with Regis taking third in 10.39