Word: hurdler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...warmup suits. One thousand college and high school athletes jog slowly back and forth, stretch and massage tight muscles, crouch in imaginary starting blocks, huddle with coaches for last-minute strategy sessions, or loll on the synthetic green turf, sipping cocoa and waiting. Susan White, a 19-year-old hurdler from the University of Maryland, surveys the scene. There is a trace of awe in her voice: "When I was in high school, I never dreamed of competing in a national meet. People are finally accepting us as athletes...
Sprinter Todd Hooks symbolized many of the frustrations facing the Crimson. The tri-captain rushed his recovery from a stifling leg injury to bolster a depleted sprint and hurdle corps. The timber-topper performed brilliantly at times, as did hurdler Paul Organ, but the pair could not pull the team through alone...
...when we win even less than we did this year." Urging Government subsidies of $10,000 a year for top U.S. amateurs, Robinson added, "It's tough to beat athletes from other countries when they are kept like professionals." One U.S. gold medalist who disagreed was 400-meter Hurdler Edwin Moses (47.64 sec.), a physics major at Morehouse College in Atlanta. His view: "I run because I like...
There was ample evidence last week that the Montreal Olympics would have its share of such moments. Hurdler Willie Davenport, 33, who was advised never to run again after he was carried off the field a year ago with a ruptured tendon in his knee, came to the U.S. trials in Eugene, Ore., spiritually and surgically renewed and won a place on his fourth Olympic team. Long Distance Runner Garry Bjorklund, 25, lost a shoe halfway through the grinding 10,000-meter race. Spurred on by the maddening memory of a foot operation that had kept...
Talk v. Action. Despite such performances, women sportswriters still face more obstacles than a hurdler. Sportswriting nowadays is focusing less on the play by play and more on the thoughts, problems and personal lives of athletes, and women can be at a disadvantage in getting close to their sources. "There is too much misunderstanding, too much innuendo if you try," says the Washington Star's Kathleen Maxa, 27. Assigned to cover a major tennis tournament last summer, Maxa talked a famous European player into an exclusive interview and accompanied him to his hotel, where it turned out that...