Word: golde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arrived at Seoul's fast track about as friendly as Iran and Iraq. Johnson, who seems to glower with power even in repose, had declared, "I want to win an Olympic gold medal. After that I don't care -- Carl Lewis could beat me 100 times." For his part, Lewis was on his semi-best behavior. "A number of people can win," he declared beforehand, his mother Evelyn sitting by his side. During the heats, Lewis' times were faster. Johnson, who had been hobbled earlier in the year by a hamstring injury, did not look good. But was he pulling...
...better Evelyn Ashford's Olympic record. When Ashford, looking sleek and fast, equaled that time in her semifinal, Flo countered by running 10.62 in her next heat. Although her rivalry with Griffith Joyner is not as public as Lewis' and Johnson's, Ashford battled fiercely to retain her gold medal. But Flo-Jo was awesome in the final match-up, accelerating all the way to beat Ashford by at least six meters...
Florence and Jackie were not the only ones to bring new maturity to their sports. The first gold medal awarded in track and field went to Rosa Mota of Portugal, who won the women's marathon in 2:25:39. While the hot and humid conditions made a new record unlikely, the race was a lot more exciting than Joan Benoit's solitary romp through the streets of Los Angeles in the first- ever women's marathon four years ago. Mota, 30, ran most of the race in the pack. Never, in fact, have so many women run together...
...terms of maturity, though, time seemed to tell at last on Edwin Moses, 33, who lost his bid for a third gold medal in the 400-meter hurdles. Moses, who freely admits that he is an old man in a young man's sport, won his first gold medal in Montreal, his second in Los Angeles, and had the U.S. not boycotted the 1980 Olympics, might have won three straight. But the owner of track's longest win streak, who got off to a good start this time, seemed to run out of gas in the last 100 meters. Just...
Another aging American star also seemed to fade in Seoul's autumn light. America's best middle-distance runner ever, Mary Decker Slaney, 30, failed once again to win an Olympic gold medal. In her 3,000-meter heat, she gave everyone a surrealistic dose of deja vu by nearly tripping as she had in Los Angeles when she got her feet tangled with South African-born Zola Budd. Her time qualified her for the final, but did not put her in strong contention. In the deciding race she led the pack for several laps but faded long before...