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Smith will be one of three team coaches, joined by Lynn Lemaire, and John Allis, three-time Olympic cyclist and former national road racing champion. Allis began competitive racing at Princeton in 1960, and made the Olympic team for the first time...
...things delight subscribers-or editors-of medical journals more than accounts of new and weird ailments. Over the years readers of the New England Journal of Medicine have been treated to numerous such "first reports." Among them: cyclist's pudendal neuritis (genital numbness from marathon bike rides on poorly padded seats), water-skier's enema (the result of high-speed falls in a sitting position) and disco felon (a finger infection from constant finger snapping on the dance floor...
...being a celebrity: "If I wanted to become famous, I would have stuck to hockey." As for all the commercial offers he rejects: "I don't want to have to go places to keep appointments." But one appointment kept by the University of California junior-now a competitive cyclist-was a dinner date last week in Indianapolis. There he became the first speed skater to receive the James E. Sullivan Award, given annually to the nation's top amateur athlete. His performance on the occasion was vintage Heiden. "I don't like to make speeches," he politely...
Blithely pedaling near his summer home on Long Island to pick up the Sunday papers, former New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay had an unexpected run-in with a non-voter. The cyclist, a distinct long shot in his bid to win the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator, swerved his ten-speed to avoid a charging dog. Too late. The angry dog rammed into the underdog's front wheel and sent Lindsay hurtling over his handle bars. Grounded with a fractured collarbone, he noted wryly: "This is not the kind of break that a candidate hopes...
Meier, one of the first to arrive on the scene, said that Mc Duffie had said, "I give up," but some of the police beat him with their nightsticks and flashlights. Marrero then stood over the cyclist, now lying still on the ground, and hit him on the head with his nightstick, testified Meier. Added Veverka: "I got splattered with the blood." Hanlon testified that he himself then drove his squad car over the motor cycle to make it look as though the bike had crashed...