Word: discuses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sweep the shotput in every meet. Senior co-captain Kim Johnson will be joined this year by two outstanding freshmen--Marie Acacia and Kathy Durante--and the trio could well outclass all of its competition. Acacia is the New York State indoor shotput champion, and Durante is an accomplished discus and shotput thrower in her own right...
...Weston-on-the-Green (pop. 300) scheduled an evening barbecue, dancing and lots of games, including at least two that are not recognized by the International Olympic Committee: a pillow fight on a greased pole laid across a swimming pool, and an English variation on the ancient Greek discus throw, in which the hurled object is a rubber Wellington boot...
...more surprised than Ben Plucknett when he broke the world discus record this month with a toss of 237 ft. 4 in. That was a stunning 14 ft. better than his best throw last year when Plucknett edged out Al Oerter to make the U.S. Olympic team, and it came at a time when the California athlete said he was so tired from overtraining that "this shouldn't be happening...
...Federation, the world governing body for track and field, said that urine tests taken last Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 at the Pacific Conference Games in New Zealand showed that Plucknett and another athlete-Gael Mulhall of Australia-had traces of anabolic steroids in their blood. Plucknett won the discus throw at the games, and Mulhall, now also under suspension, won the women's shotput and discus. Plucknett's coach denies that he used the drugs and says the urine sample must have been mixed up or tampered with...
...victory in the Greater Boston Championships one week earlier, the Yale win was the result of a team effort. "The really encouraging thing about Yale was that everybody came together and did very well," Rogers said. Among the stellar performances was the 1-2-3 sweep in the discus, pulled off by Kim Johnson, Debbie Markson, and Beth Cooley...