Word: brumel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days," he says, "the Russians took pictures of us in track and field. Then all of a sudden we were filming ((High Jumper)) Valery Brumel. That's the way it works. You share with each other because competition is the name of the game. Tables will always turn, but in the long run it makes us all better." In the Peace Corps and for the State Department, Toomey has passed his knowledge along to 69 countries...
Those who define themselves by a specific adversary have always acknowledged the bond. A faded photograph from 1962: at a Soviet-American track-and-field championship in Palo Alto, Calif., Siberian High Jumper Valeriy Brumel sprang past Bostonian John Thomas for his world record of 7 ft. 5 in. The American crowd cheered without reservation. Thomas hugged and pounded Brumel. On impulse, Valeriy and Tennessee Long Jumper Ralph Boston took a lap around the stadium to unreserved applause. Only the audience has changed...