Word: hurdler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just don't know. To be able to reach for something you've been striving for for a long time. I feel good." Showing twice as much leg as usual, the whirlwind Florence Griffith Joyner won her 100, and if she missed her record she hardly cared. History's hurdler, Edwin Moses, turned over the stage to a tearful Andre Phillips and left the world to marvel at his last twelve years...
...thunderclaps, the children of South Korea danced a delightful welcome for nearly 10,000 sportsmen from 160 countries on parade. Someone thought of limiting the marchers in the interest of time, but the athletes screamed. "You're not in the Olympics if you don't march," said the U.S. hurdler Edwin Moses, who smiled sadly when the first impulse of the American team was to threaten a boycott of the opening scene. Boycott isn't usually an athlete's word. "I still miss 1980," Moses said. "Marching into Moscow would have been thrilling...
...moral superiority. After the triumph over the U.S. in Montreal, for example, some 347 athletes, coaches and officials were honored with such prestigious decorations as the Order of Lenin. By contrast, sporting life in the U.S. centers on professional teams, and the rewards are commensurate: Edwin Moses, the greatest hurdler who ever lived, earns through fees and endorsements about $500,000 a year, roughly the wage of a journeyman major-league baseball player. Football drains away sprinters to become pass catchers and weight throwers to play as linemen or on defense: six days after he won the 1984 Olympic silver...
More serious than the meet loss is the injury to Turbitt. Nagged for seven years by what was perceived to be a hamstring injury, the hurdler was told recently by doctors that his pain arose from a suspended chip from the base of his pelvis...
...squad can also expect solid performances from high jumper and Co-Captain Erin Segrue, and hurdler Laura Blodgett...