Word: javelins
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...longtime sport fan, suggested to International Olympic Association President Avery Brundage that he invite two other Communist-country athletes to come West. He became ecstatic in his desire to "lift the Iron Curtain enough" to bring Czechoslovakia's fabulous triple gold medalist, Distance Runner Emil Zatopek, and his javelin champion wife, Ingrova, to the U.S. for a barnstorming tour. Said Sawyer: "It might be the beginning of a new program for mankind . . . the first step toward a permanent peace ... It appears difficult to work it out in the area of politics and armies. It might be easier to begin...
...discus throw. Still 99 points behind his record pace, he took third in the pole vault at 13 ft. 1.47 in., his best vault by 0.72 in. Bob was urged by his faithful scorekeeper to do even better in the two final events. As darkness fell, Bob threw the javelin 194 ft. 3.15 in. to win the event. At 9:40 that evening, by the ghostly light of the Olympic torch, he took off on the 1,500-meter run. Pacing himself to the limit, he sliced 4.5 sec. off his previous best time, placed fourth in his heat, lurched...
...California's Cy Young, who spoiled Finland's hopes in the javelin with a throw of 242 ft. 0.79 in., breaking (by 5 ft. 6.04 in.) a 20-year-old Olympic record for the first U.S. javelin victory in Olympic history. Second: Bill Miller of the U.S. Marines...
...same day that Ingrova set a women's Olympic javelin mark of 165 ft. 7.05 in., husband Emil cracked the Olympic 5,000-meter record in 14 min. 6 sec. With a 10,000-meter record already in the bag, he entered the 26-mile marathon three days later, broke another Olympic record in 2 hrs. 23 min. 3.2 sec. to become the only Olympic athlete ever to sweep the three distance races...
None of the adulation seems to have changed Bob much. He likes to go to dances occasionally (he has no steady girl). He brushes off all discussion of his triumphs with an embarrassed grin. At his white stucco home in Tulare, just a good javelin throw from the local high school, he still shares with brother Jimmy an attic bedroom, a cluttered place littered with Bob's medical specimens (he once wanted to be a doctor like his father), his model airplanes, and a sign he once rescued from a rubbish heap: "A winner never quits and a quitter...