Word: asiad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manila's Rizal Stadium was the scene of the Second Asiad, and a few Filipinos had trouble forgetting that the Japanese had holed up in that very spot for a last-ditch stand during the liberation of Manila in World War II. But such memories were soon drowned by roars of approval for the Japanese performances. One of the stars of the meet was a slender (5 ft. 4 in., 116 lbs.) 19-year-old Japanese girl named Atsuko Nambu, who won the 100-meter event, placed second at 200 meters and in the broad jump, and anchored...
Despite the brilliance of individual performers, no country could match the overall team balance of the Japanese, who won the Second Asiad (as they had the first, in New Delhi in 1951) with a team score of 2,390 points. Runners-up: the Philippines, with 1,736½ points...
...stadium with eight entrance tunnels, a pink-tinted cycle track, a cinder track, an arena for field events, a main grass arena for football, hockey and basketball, a swimming pool with a spectator capacity of 5,000. There last week, teams from eleven Asian countries competed in the first Asiad, a program of events patterned after the world Olympics. The countries: Afghanistan, Burma, Ceylon, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Nepal, the Philippines, Singapore, Siam.* Stated purpose of the Asiad: "Maintaining world peace." Another purpose: promoting the Asians-are-different line of India's Nehru and other Asian leaders...
...swimming teams (their swimmers are in training for the Helsinki Olympics), the Japanese piled up a total of 130 points. India was second, with 95 points. Iran, with 43 points, beat the Philippines for third. The records were generally poor in comparison with world marks (e.g., best time for Asiad men's 400-meter hurdles: 54.2 sec.; world record: 50.6 sec.), but, in the words of one federation official: "The spirit of cooperation displayed here has been more important than smashing records...
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