Word: discuses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appeal of the Games simpler than all this? What one has here, after all, are simple contests, simple consequences, the simple delight of observers at basic human activities. Remove the 8,000 banners, the 52 miles of fencing, and the scene is pastoral. Someone jumps or throws a discus. Someone swims. People play ball. Close out the noise, remove the fancy equipment, and one could feel that the Games show the world rediscovering itself in absolute serenity and innocence. Nothing is supposed to be innocent any more, of course, but it is hard to read corruption in the 400-meter...
...locale and the corkscrew stance both prompt riddles. Egypt's Muhammad Neguib, 32, did not pick up his first discus until he was 25, a good ten years older than most trainees. This seventh of ten children had played a ferocious game of volleyball until a professor of physical education noticed that the young man had the body of a discus thrower: long arms and legs, bulk (286 Ibs.) and strength (a chest circumference of 51 in.). These raw materials remain uncoached; Egypt, which has not had an Olympic medalist since 1960, spends little on developing its amateur athletes. Says...
When 47-year-old Discus Thrower Al Oerter wrecked his calf three weeks ago and abandoned his quest for a fifth gold-medal Games, sentiment took a tough loss. But it rebounded marvelously in the person of Hammer Thrower Burke, 44, the singular delight of the trials. His motto: "We must not step off life's parade." A veteran of the 1968 Olympics, Burke retired for twelve years, patented a hydraulic weight-lifting machine and sold it for $2 million. Five years ago, his two teen-age daughters helped him scrub the rust from the old ball and chain...
Other records consoled the Harvard squad as well. Busby set a new school best by winning the 400 meters in 56.54 seconds; Pattarson handled 100 meters in a swift 14.17 seconds; Moore dashed 100 meters in a quick 12.18 seconds; and Kathleen Durante's 132-foot discus throw found its way into the record books...
Junior Marie Acacia took the shot put and the discus events with throws of 39-ft., 1-in, and 114-ft., respectively. Classmate Kathleen Durante took second in both events...