Word: golds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gold medal were awarded for crowd participation, the winner would surely be the Koreans, who raised the rafters of the Seoul National University gymnasium when the favored Korean team took the gold in women's table-tennis doubles over their Chinese rivals. National pride reached its climax on the day of the men's singles, because one Korean star was up against another. As soon as young Yoo Nam-Kyu beat Kim Ki-Taik for the gold, he disappeared inside a sea of partisan photographers...
...roars at Changch'ung gymnasium were just as loud whenever a local boy < took the floor at judo last week. During the first two days of the competition, Korean judoka won both golds. By the time all seven events were completed, Korea had added a bronze to their total, while Japan, the originator of the sport, came away with but one gold and three bronzes...
...Abbott became the center of a celebratory sandwich after pitching the U.S. baseball team to a 5-3 gold medal victory over Japan. That win reversed the results of the 1984 Games, in which the Japanese humiliated the Americans by beating them at their own national pastime. "This was my dream of a lifetime," Abbott said after he and the rest of his thrilled teammates were unpiled...
Beforehand, experts wrote off the U.S. Olympic boxing team as a mere shadow of the 1984 squad, which had won a record nine gold medals. But last week they finished with eight medals -- three gold, three silver and two bronze. Except for the boycotted 1984 Games, it was the best U.S. total since 1904. The gold winners: bantamweight Kennedy McKinney, 22, light heavyweight Andrew Maynard, 24, and heavyweight Ray Mercer, at 27 the oldest U.S. fighter, who danced delightedly around the ring after knocking out Korea's Baik Hyun-man. Light middleweight Roy Jones, 19, lost a plainly mistaken decision...
...basketballers, Seoul proved to be a painful split decision. The American women, sparked by 1984 veterans Anne Donovan and Teresa Edwards, broke away against Yugoslavia to win their second straight gold medal, 77-70. "This one's more special than '84," said Donovan. "All the best teams were here, especially the Russians." The U.S. rolled over the Soviet women in the semifinals, 102-88, and the gold-medal game was largely an anticlimax. The U.S. men, surprisingly, never made it to the finals. Despite having eight first-round N.B.A. draft picks on the team, they were ambushed in the semis...