Word: decathloneer
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Yang, 29, does not even regard pole vaulting as his speciality. The son of a Formosan farmer, he came to the U.S. to study track and field five years ago, learned so fast that he ranks as one of the world's best all-round athletes. A decathlon star, he won a silver medal at the 1960 Olympics. He has been clocked at 9.4 sec. for the loo-yd. dash-just .2 sec. off the world record - runs the 120-yd. high hurdles in 13.9 sec., broad-jumps 25 ft. 5 in., high-jumps 6 ft. 4 in., whirls...
...poles are as changeable as Paris fashions: rules permit them to be made of anything at all, and, at one time or another, vaulters have experimented with ash, hickory, bamboo. steel and aluminum as well as fiber glass. Bob Mathias used a fiber-glass pole to win the Olympic decathlon back in 1952; Greek Pole Vaulter George Roubanis used one when he took a bronze medal at Melbourne in 1956. But the fiber-glass pole is no guarantee of success: all but a handful of the U.S.'s top 20 vaulters now use it, and only Uelses has managed...
...more like Peter Pan. Juliet Prowse looks like Leslie Caron with muscles and, perhaps because she is a native of South Africa, also looks ashamed of the mess she's in. Massey is gassy. The only object of real interest on the screen is Rafer Johnson, the Olympic decathlon champion, here appearing in his big Hollywood role. Most of the time...
...Decathlon Man Rafer Johnson (TIME cover, Aug. 29), whose gold medal in last summer's Olympic Games was won as much on gumption as talent, went the A.A.U.'s James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy as the outstanding U.S. amateur athlete of 1960. As the world's top sports man - pro or amateur - SPORTS ILLUSTRATED tapped golf's confident Arnold Palmer (TIME cover, May 2), who staged two cliffhanging rallies to win both the Masters and U.S. Open crowns, went on to win a record $80,738 for the year...
...playing safety in the National Football League requires almost as many athletic skills as winning the decathlon. Ideally, the safety man must have the speed of a sprinter to keep up with whippet-fast backs and ends as they break for passes. He must have the wit to diagnose plays in advance, the instinct to follow them as they unfold. He must have the strength and guts to hurl himself head-on at a 230-lb. fullback. And he must learn to live with the chilling reality that as the last line of defense, every time he makes a mistake...