Word: hurdler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...event's crucial 50-meter running start. The U.S. has moved slowly to catch up. Long controlled by several venerable clubs around Lake Placid, U.S. bobsledding has become parochial and, some critics claim, possibly racist. Efforts to add speedier newcomers have prompted tensions. Blacks, notably Gold Medalist Hurdler Willie Davenport, who competed in 1980, have not been warmly welcomed to the chill upstate New York Olympic site. But the prime reason for America's slide from gold is less-than-state-of-the-art equipment. After a typical defeat in an international meet last year, novice Pusher...
...most costly injuries occurred at the Penn relays of Friday, when a Harvard team of Bennet Midlo, Brad Bunney. Steve Ezeji-Okoye and Dwayne Jones took second in the Heps Mile Relay behind the squad from Penn. While running the third leg. Ezeji-Okoye--the star freshman hurdler and middle-distance man--pulled his hamstring, putting him out of commission for the weekend...
Beat him he did, as well as the other hurdlers. The hobbled hurdler just grabbed the lead and held on to win by well over a second. "My heel and groin were a bit sore, but when you really get into a race you can forget about the soreness," Ezeji-Okoye said...
Haggerty has been an integral part of the Harvard track team since he came to Harvard in 1964. During his four years on the squad, he was an outstanding hurdler and sprinter and immediately upon graduation he began coaching those events for his alma mater...
...fall in love when they meet during a downswing in Chris's career. As the women fight and make love with a cool intensity rarely captured on film. Chris (the younger of the two) breaks out of her slump and comes into her own as a runner and hurdler. She even joins Tory's team, after the established track star pleads with her coach to give Chris a chance...