Word: discusion
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Less rewarding, according to some U.S. gold medalists, was their lot at home. Their refrain became a familiar-and unsettling-one at the Games. "America expects its athletes to wave a flag and win a medal every four years," complained Discus Champion Mac ("Wolfman") Wilkins. "But then you're supposed to take off that silly underwear and go out and make a decent living." Long-Jump Winner Arnie Robinson, whose wife Cynthia held down two jobs so that he could devote the past three years to training, warned, "There will be some big surprises in 1980, when...
Several American athletes have warned against this trend away from the individual. Discus thrower Mac Wilkins, who won a gold medal at Montreal, told reporters that he was threatened with expulsion by United States Olympic officials for training away from Montreal even though he could not concentrate in the Olympic village. He went on to say that his victory was an "achievement for myself." Arnie Robinson, the victor in the long jump competition, felt that his medal was a reward for his long hours of training. "I won for myself, my family," Robinson said...
...track stars Ed Ajootian and Mel Embree may have garnered all the publicity over the weekend when they won the hammer throw and the high jump respectively at the IC4A Championships in Philadelphia, but the real news for Harvard was freshman Joe Pellegrini's fifth place finish in the discus event...
Pelligrini threw the discus 161 ft. 11 in. on his first attempt in the event's final round to snag fifth place. John Post of C.W. Post won with a throw...
Neither Cambridge Latin nor Rindge Technical High School have tracks. Track team members presently practice on the streets around their schools and in the schools' corridors. There is no practice space for field events such as the javelin, the discus, or the hammer...