Word: biglow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Biglow, Yale University...
...John Biglow, the U.S. single sculler at the 1984 Olympics placed second in 18:54.4. Biglow, a Yalie, finished fourth at the Games...
Among the unknown Americans, Archer Rick McKinney won a silver medal. Pentathlete Mike Storm helped his team to a silver and finished fifth in individual competition. Single-Scull Rower John Biglow came in fourth, the women's flatwater kayaking team also placed fourth, and Fencer Jana Angelakis lost in the preliminaries. Weight Lifter Kevin Winter dropped out because of injuries...
...full-time paying job. Thus he has been a member of the leisure class, though with little leisure. Oarsmen row all year, on the water or on machines, and put in additional long hours running and lifting weights. "You can't have much of a social life," Biglow says. "Oarsmen are notorious for going to sleep at 10 o'clock...
...good prospect for a bronze medal, he is convincing when he says that competing, not winning, is his reward. Merely to be in the same race with the great Finnish sculler Pertti Karppinen, gold medalist in 1980 and the favorite this year, justifies all the training, says Biglow. Athletics for money, as a business? Biglow finds the concept distasteful. But, he knows, his case is special...