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...startling victory in the 400-meter relay, when the sloppy U.S. team finished first but was disqualified for passing the baton illegally. Some of the Americans managed to live up to their clippings, but the Russians had aces to match-such as Valery Brumel, who sailed over the crossbar at 7 ft. 5¾ in. to break his own world record in the high jump...
...already limbering up its muscles. At the Pan American Games in Sao Paulo, Brazil, U.S. swimmers won 19 of 20 events, U.S. wrestlers swept eight of eight, U.S. weightlifters six of seven. Latin American track fans saw their first 16-ft. vault when Dave Tork soared over the crossbar at 16 ft. ¾ in. Balding Pete McArdle chopped 65.1 sec. off the Games record for 10,000 meters, and Broadjumper Ralph Boston leaped 26 ft. 7¼ in. Jaunty Jim Beatty, who had not lost a race in two years, managed to get beaten in the 1,500 meters...
...glass model. "I had to learn to wait, wait for that pole to snap." But Yang slowly got the hang. "On the U.C.L.A. practice field,'' he recalls, "we had to put blocks under the uprights to get them up to 16 ft. Every time I hit the crossbar, one upright would fall over and hit me on the head...
...September, as much for self-preservation as anything else. Yang gave the little bit extra that put him over. Yang remeasured the crossbar. "Parry O'Brien was practicing the shot-put, and he called over, 'What was the height? About fifteen and a half?' When I told him 'Sixteen two,' he said, 'Wow! You were over that bar by six or seven inches...
...lifted his left hand in a crisp salute-a signal that he was ready. Suddenly he was galloping violently toward the pit. His left foot slammed into the ground and his body hurtled upward-left arm tucked against his chest, right leg thrust high. He barely grazed the crossbar; then he was clear and falling, the bar quivering behind him. The jump measured 7 ft. 5 in., a new world's record. And as Brumel bounced joyfully from the sawdust pit, 81,000 people, on hand for last week's U.S.-Soviet track meet at Palo Alto. Calif...