Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...event after event, there were officiating blunders that demonstrated incompetence, and sometimes outright bias. The first involved Chris Taylor, the 434-lb. American heavyweight wrestler, in his opening bout with Russia's world champion, Alexander Medved. To most observers, Taylor waged a clean battle with his opponent and clearly should have won the match. Yet Referee Umit Demirag, a Turk, cautioned Taylor twice for fouling, without once reprimanding Medved; the penalty points incurred by Taylor provided Medved with his margin of victory. Demirag's calls were so conspicuously wrong that the Federation of International Boxing Associations afterward summarily...
...dedicated and hard-working rower, it can be rewarding. If you want to become a first-rate oarsman, and you have a touch of masochism in you that needs to be fulfilled, the Harvard crew program is what you need. In Harry Parker and Steve Gladstone (with the heavyweight and lightweight squads, respectively) you will encounter two of the finest--if not the finest--crew coaches in the country. Parker, who is in Munich this summer as head crew coach for the U.S. Olympic team, has become a legend in his own time...
Died. Eddie Machen, 40, ranking heavyweight contender during the 1950s and '60s; of injuries suffered when he fell or jumped from his apartment window; in San Francisco. A convict turned fighter, Machen seemed headed for the championship until Sweden's Ingemar Johansson kayoed him in the first round of a 1958 fight. After a bout with mental illness, he tried a comeback that soon fizzled, and later worked part time as a longshoreman...
...back before Munich, he might trouble the only wrestler ever to have whipped him: 280-lb. World Champion Alexander Medved of Russia. Another Soviet giant is 330-lb. Weight Lifter Vasily Ivanovich Alexeyev. Agile enough to play volleyball, easygoing Alexeyev has set 54 world records in the super-heavyweight division since March 1970 and is clearly the class of his field...
...ever advanced to the finals. Never, that is, until now, and the resulting excitement among the estimated 60 million chess players round the world?and millions of others who do not know a double fianchetto from a double play?is of the kind usually reserved for an epic heavyweight championship fight...