Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...health-club regular. "We are completely aware that 70% of men's clothing decisions are made by females," says Uwe. The company also has recruited such top athletes as Björn Borg, the five-time Wimbledon tennis champion, and Jürgen Hingsen, the world-record holder and Olympic silver medalist in the decathlon, to wear the Boss line...
...cleared 19 ft. ¼in., two inches higher than the winning Olympic vault. Five world records were achieved in the pool. "The water is fast here," said one Soviet fan, and 6-ft. 4-in. Sergei Zabolotnov proved it. In the 200-meter backstroke, he defeated the European record holder, East Germany's Dirk Richter, in a world record time of 1:58.41 sec., slicing more than half a second off the record held by the U.S.'s Rick Carey, who took the gold in the event at Los Angeles...
...inspired, he will be pleased. "They need to learn how to compete," he said kindly. "A lot of them are marshmallows." The winner, Finland's Juha Tiainen, sighed, "It's not the same without the Eastern bloc countries." In the high jump, the celebrities were World Record Holder Zhu Jianhua of China and Dwight Stones of the U.S., but the winner was Dietmar Mögenburg of West Germany. He never missed at any height until everyone else was out and, alone with the bar, he tried raising Zhu's 7-ft. 10-in. mark...
...power. There were 300 placard bearers on the field trying to rehearse, and at the oddest moments an automatic sprinkler system would click on and reduce their practice to drippy disarray. At last the producer located a workman whose raiment included an enormous ring of jangling keys. The key holder was intractable at the start: "Watering that field is just as important to us as the opening ceremonies are to you." Some mean words later, Wolper prevailed. "I just made the most important note of the day," the producer later told a reporter. "On the day of the opening ceremony...
...Games prepared to laugh. "Let this, go out nationwide," proclaims Steve Lundquist. "I need a job. I'm keeping my ears open, and they certainly are big enough." Lundquist, 23, and Meagher, 19, are two of the sport's grizzled journeymen. She was a record holder at age five, a world champion by 14. Then, in 1980, what should have been Meagher's Olympics went on without her when the U.S. boycotted Moscow...