OLYMPIC MONITOR

WILL WRESTLING SURVIVE DU PONT?

AS JOHN E. DU PONT AWAITED A PRETRIAL HEARING IN THE murder of Olympic wrestling champion Dave Schultz, Team Foxcatcher, the elite squad of wrestlers the millionaire supported on his Pennsylvania estate, had to balance their mourning with concerns about the future. Not only is Schultz, their friend and team leader, dead, but their patron is in jail--just as they are preparing to qualify for the Atlanta Olympics.

The training regimen at Foxcatcher is completely in chaos. In addition to the top-ranked Schultz, who was planning an Olympic comeback, the wrestling team included at least five other likely contenders in Atlanta. Now, the remaining members face losing not only financial support from Du Pont--some members received up to $800 a month--but also use of one of the world's best wrestling centers. Says heavyweight Kurt Angle: "I'm not sure what happens to us as a team." If the club dissolves, as seems likely, "it will be missed," says Art Martori of the rival Sunkist Kids club in Phoenix, Arizona. "It's a shame. Wrestling will suffer."

The U.S. Olympic Committee has given team members a $50,000 grant, and USA Wrestling, the sport's governing body, has offered access to training facilities. A few wrestlers spoke of being told by a Foxcatcher employee that they would also receive money from a special Du Pont trust fund. None are prepared to give up their dreams. "I'll definitely continue to train," says team member Ed Giese. "I think that's what Dave would want me to do."

WIGGLY FIELD

Even though it isn't completed, the 85,000-seat Olympic Stadium already needs repairs. Workers have begun reinforcing the girders, beams, columns and trusses at the site of the opening and closing ceremonies. The stadium's designers and an outside consultant began reviewing construction of the $230 million arena after a light tower collapsed last March, killing a worker. "It's a belt and suspenders thing," says engineer Antranij Ouzoonian, explaining the work on the stadium. "If you have a belt, you're O.K.; if you add suspenders, you're better off."

ALTIUS, AS IN PRICES

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has calculated how much a family of four will pay for a vacation to the Games. Out-of-towners with an average of $1,500 worth of tickets will pay $2,600 to stay six nights in a motel about 100 miles from town. (Some travel agencies require a minimum booking of six days even if tourists don't have tickets for all those days.) The visitors will then have to get up before dawn to be loaded on a bus for the two-hour trip to the city, where they'll pay about $150 a day for food. That makes a grand total of almost $5,000, excluding souvenirs.

NO SEX, PLEASE. WE'RE OLYMPIAN

Atlanta has several un-Olympic venues: its various adult entertainment centers. Now, however, Mayor Bill Campbell wants to clean things up. Last week he blocked plans to open a lingerie-modeling studio across the street from Centennial Olympic Park, a 21-acre downtown plaza, and Olympic City, Coca-Cola's $20 million theme park. Campbell said the !X!CLUSIVE modeling studio violated the zoning code, which requires such adult-entertainment enterprises to be at least 1,000 ft. from parks. A city agency is reconsidering !X!CLUSIVE's request.