Word: golde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...competition also produced some memorable moments. In the 1-km time trial, Soviet Alexander Kirichenko clinched a gold medal even though his rear tire began to deflate during his final lap. In the 100-km time trial, an East German team that had trouble breaking two hours in training clocked 1:57.47 to take the gold. In the qualification round of the 4,000-meter pursuit, Australia set a new world record of 4 min. 16.32 sec., only to see the Soviets break it again...
...fact, of ABC's handling of seven consecutive U.S. Olympic broadcasts. Particularly vivid in U.S. viewers' minds were the emotional highs of 1984, when the Summer Games were held on home ground in Los Angeles and, in the wake of a Soviet-led boycott, U.S. athletes won 83 gold medals. ABC's coverage then was so full of pro-U.S. cheerleading that athletes from other nations made a formal complaint...
...buffs want to see every routine, swimming mavens every heat. Yet not even 179 1/2 hours of coverage is enough to display more than about a tenth of all the action. But NBC's sense of proportion has been peculiarly maddening. It broke into live coverage of Janet Evans' gold-medal swim in the 400-meter individual medley to air a banal taped interview with her. Night after night, viewers saw just enough volleyball or water polo to frustrate them as they waited for something else, yet not enough context or start-to-finish action to convert them into enthusiasts...
...Hembrick was disqualified for arriving late, reporter Wallace Matthews bulled into an inner room where Hembrick slouched disconsolate. Matthews thrust a microphone into the stricken youth's face while posing the perennial pointless question about how Hembrick felt. As soon as swimmer Matt Biondi was touched out for the gold by a hundredth of a second in the 100-meter butterfly, analyst John Naber nastily opined that Biondi "deserved the loss" because he had glided in rather than risk a final, choppy stroke that might have caused him to collide with the wall...
...volleyball team has only four returnees from its 1984 gold medal squad, but the Americans were still the favorites as they came roaring into the 1988 preliminary rounds. Playing at first with the poise and confidence of veterans, they easily knocked off Japan and subdued a strong Dutch team coached by Arie Selinger, who guided the U.S. women to a silver medal in 1984. Then the Americans dropped the first two games of their best- of-five match with Argentina. "We were overconfident," admits Marv Dunphy, the U.S. men's coach since 1985. "We were waiting for them to make...