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Still to come was the most dramatic track and field confrontation since Australia's John Landy and Britain's Roger Bannister met at Vancouver seven years ago for the "Mile of the Century." The opponents: High Jumpers John Thomas of the U.S. and Valery Brumel of the U.S.S.R...
...style in pre-Olympic workouts, slipped into the bad habit of dropping his trailing leg as he rolled across the bar. The result was disastrous: unable to clear 7 ft. 1 in. in three tries, Thomas wound up ignominiously in third place behind Russia's Robert Shavlakadze and Brumel, neither of whom had ever topped 7 ft. before...
...Valery Brumel, Russian high jumper, cleared 7 ft., 3 in. to win over Boston University's John Thomas in the feature event of the New York Athletic Club Games last night. Thomas was illuminated...
...competition began in earnest. Thomas seemed safe enough. The best man of the challenging trio of Russians had never gone over 7 ft. | in. But as the bar rose steadily, Thomas began to peer nervously at the Russians. All four cleared 7 ft. 31n. Then Robert Shavlakadze and Valery Brumel made it over 7 ft. 1 in. to break the Olympic record by 2 in. Twice Thomas missed. The stadium lights were on when he began his third try. His form was as smooth as ever, his right leg kicked for the sky-and he seemed to be over. Then...