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...pulled muscle might have kept Johnson off the Olympic team altogether, he went all out for a special reason. Kuznetsov had captured his world record and pushed the score to 8,357 points. In the ninth event, Johnson raced smoothly across the grass and sent a silver javelin shimmering into the air. When it landed 233 ft. 3 in. away, Johnson knew he had already passed Kuznetsov's world record. In pure delight, he began sprinting after his toss. Then he suddenly stopped and knelt to pray in the middle of the field, his face wet with tears...
record. Record-cracking Olympic trial performances by Los Angeles Housewife Earlene Brown in the discus (176 ft. 10½ in.) and shotput (50 ft. 10¼ in.) and San Diego's Karen Oldham in the javelin (163 ft. 5½ in.) demonstrated fair U.S. strength in the field events. Said Temple: "We've got a chance. We'll have to wait...
...meters in 48.6 sec. Next day. he returned to spring the no-meter high hurdles in 14.5 sec., hurl the discus 170 ft. 6½ in. (almost 10 ft. farther than he had ever thrown it before), pole-vault 13 ft. ¼ in., throw the javelin 233 ft. 3 in. and run 1,500 meters in 5 min. 9.9 sec. Yet even though Rafer Johnson had broken Kuznetsov's ten-event record after only nine events. Johnson's victory was still in doubt. C. K. Yang had not yet run his 1,500-meter heat; a time...
After he had thrown the javelin 269 ft. 7½ in.. Bill Alley, 23, caught his spikes in the grass, pulled a muscle and spiked himself badly in his right calf as he fell. His leg bandaged, Alley limped back to throw six more times, but could not better his first try, finished a gallant second to Marine Lieut. Al Cantello, who had a mark of 277 ft. 7 in. "Oh, I wanted to win, man," said Alley. "I wanted...
...should win the shotput, pole vault, hammer throw, and high jump, seems likely to take the javelin, discus and broad jump. But South Africa's Mai Spence is rated the world's best in the 400 meters by Europe's experts, and Jamaica's George Kerr will be the man to beat in the 800 meters. Jim Beatty in the 5,000 meters and Dyrol Burleson in the 1,500 meters give the U.S. its strongest candidates in years, but both will go to Rome as long shots against European and Russian distance...