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Actually, unlike others who share this absurd Walter Mitty daydream, I had done something about it. A month before the Games I had gone to the Olympic Training Center under the shadow of Pikes Peak in Colorado Springs to be tested in the Sports Physiology laboratories there to see if by chance there was a particular Olympic event for which I was a perfect physical specimen to suit...
...fields, celebrated East Germans Marlies Göhr and Marita Koch included, at the World Cup. But by 1980 her fine, fragile legs were popping strings, and they could not be summoned to try out for a symbolic team. Ashford posted her world record 100 (10.79) in Colorado last summer to chill the East German runners awaiting her in Helsinki. But she arrived there, as usual, grabbing her right hamstring, which she racked in the heats and wrecked in the finals. At the Olympic trials in June, taped as tautly and poignantly as Mickey Mantle...
This summer's severe insect infestation has also struck North Dakota, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Nevada. Heavy snows, followed by a cool, damp spring, led to what farm experts called "a real good hatch" of grasshoppers. Idaho had requested $10 million in federal funds to spray with Malathion, the chemical used to combat the Mediterranean fruit fly. But experts question its use at this late stage. Says South Dakota Entomologist Ben Kantack: "If we spray now, we're just spraying for revenge...
...Colorado Senator Gary Hart descended from the podium and plunged into the crowd after his Wednesday-night speech, the hopeful strains of Chariots of Fire washed over Moscone Center. The next night Democratic Presidential Nominee Walter Mondale, battle-scarred from his primary brawls, strode triumphantly to the platform and raised his arms like a prizefighter. The song: Theme from Rocky...
...assembled the year round. These 630 men and women, from Yachtsman William Buchan, 49, to Gymnast Michelle Dusserre, 15, are the long-awaited first crop from the Amateur Sports Act of 1978, the charter beneficiaries of the stepped-up Olympic job program, the modern training center in Colorado Springs, Colo., and the newest biomechanical technologies...