Panel Likes Hybl for President

Bill Hybl of Colorado Springs, Colo., who served as interim president of the U.S. Olympic Committee in 1991-’92, has been selected by a nominating committee to become the organization’s next president, sources told the Times.

Other officer candidates to be recommended by the USOC-appointed nominating committee are Sandra Baldwin of Phoenix, Herman Frazier of Tempe, Ariz., and Paul George of Wellesley, Mass., for the three vice-president positions, Marty Mankamyer of Colorado Springs for secretary and Jim Morris of Indianapolis for treasurer.

The slate will be presented on June 25 to USOC executive director Dick Schultz. The board of directors will vote in October for officers, who are elected to four-year terms. Other candidates can challenge the official slate but rarely are elected without the nominating committee’s support.

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The Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games is sending its employees at the softball venue in Columbus, Ga., back to work today after settling a dispute with the International Softball Federation.

ACOG officials ordered the employees to stop work Friday after almost a week of negotiations with the ISF stalled. The two groups disagreed over the amount of money that the ISF had agreed to pay ACOG for expenses associated with the first-ever softball competition in the Olympics.