Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dash of Strength. Most other experts agree that U.S. trackmen will do even better in Mexico City than they did at Tokyo in 1964, when they won twelve out of 24 gold medals and broke two world records. Impressive as that 1964 showing was, the U.S. won no medals at all in three track events: the 800-meter run, the steeplechase and the decathlon. One indication of the superiority of this year's team is that Americans may well win all three. New York's Tom Farrell and Oregon's Wade Bell are top contenders...
...little different. As he drifted to the left, Gatto cocked his arm and lobbed an option pass 25 yards downfield, where the mammoth (6-2, 240) Varney waited behind two defenders. Gatto's pass drifted over the guards and disappeared, like a grape, into the end's paws. The dash to the goal line was anti-climactic. But except for this drive, the first offense was stymied most of the afternoon...
...most of the other events, the thin air was obviously no great hindrance. California's Geoff Vanderstock pared .3 sec. off the world record for the 400-meter intermediate hurdles. Another Californian, Jim Hines, tied the world mark of 10 sec. flat in the 100-meter dash. Army SP/4 Tom Farrell ran one of the fastest 800 me ters of the year when he was clocked in 1 min. 46.5 sec. And California's Bob Seagren soared over the pole-vault bar at 17 ft. 9 in. to break the world record...
...meter dash was the real sizzler. The third-place finisher, Stanford Graduate Larry Questad, tied Tommie Smith's world mark of 20 sec. flat. Smith himself, who finished second, was clocked in 19.9 sec. The winner: New York's John Carlos, who turns on for races by listening to soul music. He broke the tape in 19.7 sec.-a full .3 sec. off Smith's old record...
...railbird wants to bother with a race that covers only 350 to 550 yds. and is over before he can focus his binoculars? The answer is the 2,000,000 quarter-horse devotees who showed up at 100 tracks in 26 states last year to watch the husky hybrids dash to photo finish after photo finish...