Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Joan Benoit, just being in the marathon constitutes a triumph. Less than three weeks before the May trials, the women's world-record holder from Maine underwent arthroscopic surgery on her complaining right knee, which finally shut down completely in practice. With microscissors, the doctor snipped a tight bundle of inflamed tissue from just behind the joint on the outside of the knee. "You could hear it snap," he said. "It was like cutting a rubber band...
...Larchmont, N. Y. "It's like he has a devil over his shoulder who drives him to go fast." Carey seems to have put behind him his notorious goggle-throwing days. But then, he has not had much occasion for temper lately. He is the world-record holder in both the 100-and 200-meter backstroke, but Carey does not enjoy the pressure of national expectations. "You feel like you're swimming with people on your back," he says...
...Folkestone, was put on the block at Sotheby's. That modest assessment came from the previous owner, the late Kenneth Clark of Civilisation fame. Others apparently agreed: the painting was sold to an anonymous individual for $10 million and change, $3 million more than for the previous record holder, also a Turner. Lord Clark's estate had offered the treasure to the National Gallery of Scotland for a mere $3 million or so, but the museum pleaded poverty...
...Winter Games." Former U.C.L.A. Star Mike Tully, 27, performed the tallest vault by any American in history, 19 ft. ¾ in., and the first of his three subsequent attempts at a world-record 19 ft. 3¾ in. looked rattlingly close. Spectators were enjoying the thought of Soviet Record Holder Sergei Bubka opening his U.S.S.R. Today the following morning and receiving the news. But Tully came no closer...
...only ill omen. "If there were flags out there on the runway," Carl said, "they'd all be blowing a different direction. It will be real hard to jump here unless we have a miracle and the wind decides to blow one way." But, as World Record Holder Bob Beamon (29 ft. 2½ in.) might tell him, miracles are not unknown in the long jump. -By Tom Callahan. Reported by Steven Holmes and Melissa Ludtke/Los Angeles