Word: golde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lore and trivia. -- Heptathlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Decathlete Daley Thompson are coming to assert a kind of athletic kingship. -- Swimmers Biondi and Janet Evans have appointments in Korea with a hoard of medals -- the question being just how many. -- For a swarm of mitey gymnasts, the contest beyond gold seems to be for the affection of the globe. -- The first superpower showdown in twelve years. -- A look into the heart of Seoul. -- And finally, for the overwhelmed viewer, a selective TV guide...
...Government files stock-fraud charges against Drexel Burnham. -- Gold among the thrift ruins. -- Turning patter into profits...
...later was running six miles. That led to Achilles' heel damage, which required surgical repair. She emerged this spring, Achilles-healed, and at the U.S. trials she surprised experts by entering -- and winning -- both the 3,000- and 1,500-meter events. Now the prospect of a pair of gold medals in Seoul is not impossible...
...disqualifying trailing wind. Only eight other legal 28-ft. jumps have been recorded. Lewis' best is 4 1/4 in. short of Beamon's. Although he has won 55 consecutive long- jump competitions, Lewis is also well remembered for passing his last four jumps at the '84 Games, when the gold medal was his but the record wasn't. "The event that means the most to me is the long jump," says Lewis. "I was never really aiming for the record. That was just a media thing. I'm still aiming to improve. I would like...
...Expect the Chinese, East German and Japanese men to be chasing the Soviet gymnasts for team gold, Swimmer Tamas Darnyi of Hungary to be chasing his own world record in the 400-m ind. medley, and Biondi to be continuing his medal chase, in the 100-m butterfly. On the basketball court the U.S. takes on the 1987 Pan Am winner, Brazil, and its colorful colossus, Oscar Schmidt. In the water Terry Schroeder captains the U.S. against defending world and Olympics champ, Yugoslavia...