Word: hurdler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world's most fashionable boulevards, momentarily became a runway last week. The stunt occurred after the street had been closed to traffic for the shooting of a promotional film to aid Paris' bid for the 1992 Olympic Games. As the cameras rolled and 1976 Olympic Gold Medal Hurdler Guy Drut ran, torch in hand, up the deserted avenue, a blue, single-engine Rallye-Club suddenly zoomed in over the Arc de Triomphe and put down in a perfect landing...
...time this year, incidentally -- Lewis reasoned, "They'll try to help anyone beat us." When a confusion of 1,500-meter heats turned Steve Scott's silver to bronze, he grumped, "It's an asinine way to do things, but that's the Soviet Union." For welcome counterbalance, Regal Hurdler Edwin Moses extended his nine-year winning streak to 111 races; Cheryl Miller led the U.S. women's basketball team to an 83-60 victory over the Soviets; Dasher Evelyn Ashford, 29, held off East Germany's Heike Drechsler, 21, for another day; Jackie Joyner became the first U.S. woman...
However, Haggerty stuck with the hurdler and by the end of the indoor season, he was winning the 55-meter hurdles...
...Former hurdler Kim Stephens traveled all the way from Little Rock, Ark., to Harvard's newly dedicated McCurdy Track to see the Crimson men's track team win the Heptagonal Championships over the weekend...
...most dramatic record-smashing of the day was done by Ezaji-Okoye in the 400-meter hurdles. After finishing second to Penn hurdler Randy Cox in the 110 hurdles, the Harvard co-captain was determined to even the score in the longer hurdling event...