Word: hammer-throw
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...track beat that summer, and quickly fell in love with the sport - the relay strategies, the tactics of the 100-meter dash versus the distance races, the oddball field sports - pole vault! Hammer-throw! I got to know Justin Gatlin at those trials, and smiled in disbelief when he won the 100-meter sprint in Athens. Just 22 years old, charismatic, and most importantly, clean. Or so I thought. Two years later, Gatlin was busted for doping, and he is now serving an eight-year ban. And Friday Jones pled guilty to lying to federal agents about...
Ajootian has continued the Harvard tradition of outstanding hammer throwers. In 1962, Edward Bailey won the coveted NCAA hammer-throw crown, 14 years after Samuel Felton nailed down the 1948 national crown...
...Though off to a slow start this spring, junior Ed Nosal will be back to defend the hammer-throw title he won last year with a toss of 192 5. In the javelin. Harvard record-holder Richie Szaro is aiming for his second consecutive GBC crown but will be pressed by teammate Frank Champi. who edged Szero in the Dartmouth meet Saturday...
...Hungary's Gyula Zsivotsky: a new world hammer-throw record, hurling the 16-lb. weight 241 ft. 11 in. to top Harold Connally's three-month-old mark by more than 8 ft.; at a meet in Debrecen, Hungary. Unprepared for such a contingency, meet officials spent a frantic hour searching for a 100-meter measuring tape- required for gauging record throws. They finally borrowed one from the local water board...
Married. Olga Fikotova, 24, dark-eyed Czechoslovakian Olympic discus-hurling champ (a record 176 ft. 1½ in.); and U.S. Olympic Team's Harold Connolly, 25, hammer-throw gold medalist and world-record holder (224 ft. 10½ in.); in Prague...