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...criticized the Amateur Athletic Union for allowing members of the U.S. team to compete in track meets throughout Europe before going on to Kiev. Along the way, Olympic 5,000-meter Champion Bob Schul caught a cold that so weakened him that he lost to 35-year-old Pyotr Bolotnikov. Another outstanding U.S. distance runner, 19-year-old Gerry Lingren, got tonsilitis and finished third in the 10,000-meter race...
Gerry Lindgren, the 13-year-old who beat Mills at the U.S. Olympic trials in August, finished ninth despite an ankle sprain suffered in a workout Monday. Pyotr Bolotnikov of the USSR, defending champion in the event, finished...
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