Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...news of the week was the almost monotonous parade of Americans to the victory pedestal. There were elev en boxing weight classes in Mexico City, and U.S. boxers won medals in seven of them. In yachting. New Orleans' Buddy Friedrichs and San Diego's Lowell North won gold medals. In shooting, Nebraska's Gary Anderson, a 29-year-old Army lieutenant, scored 1,157 out of a possible 1,200 points to win the free-rifle competition and break his own world record. Competing in his fourth Olympics, Connecticut's Bill Steinkraus, a 43-year...
...loose. With young Haywood playing like a dervish, popping in baskets and blocking shots, the U.S. put the game out of reach. By a score of 65-50, the team that was thought to be the weakest the U.S. had ever fielded won America's seventh straight gold medal in Olympic basketball...
...since Cortes gave Guatemozin a hotfoot in an effort to make him reveal where the Aztecs kept their gold has Mexico been invaded by such a determined band of treasure hunters as the U.S. Olympic team. "The greatest competitive Olympics in history," as U.S. Track Coach Payton Jordan called them, proved to be a showcase for the multifarious talents of an inspired U.S. squad bent on cornering all the gold in Mexico City-and the silver and bronze as well. The medal score told the story: by week's end, with only a handful of events still...
Supernumerary Stars. Nowhere were the stunning strength and depth of the U.S. team more evident than in swim ming. Even the supernumeraries turned into stars. California's Mark Spitz, who had been favored to win as many as five gold medals, managed only two-both in relays-and finished dead last in his specialty, the 200-meter butterfly. Pennsylvania's Carl Robie did his job for him, beating Britain's Martyn Wood-roffe to the touch board by two yards...
Australia's Mike Wenden surprised everyone by splashing to victory in both the 100-meter and 200-meter sprints. And Felipe Munoz, an unsung, 17-year-old prep-schooler from Mexico City, gave the host nation its first gold medal of the Games when he edged out Russia's world record holder, Vladimir Kosinsky, in the 200-meter breaststroke. Yet Debbie Meyer, a 16-year-old from Sacramento, Calif., singlehandedly balanced out those losses by winning the women's 200-meter, 400-meter and 800-meter freestyles, despite a strained ankle and a bad case...