Word: koblenz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reclaimed his record (set in 1979 and broken by Ovett in 1980), taking 27/100 sec. off the mark with a time of 3 min. 48.53 sec. Exactly a week later, Ovett announced that he wanted to go after the new record at a meet in Koblenz, West Germany. No mile event had been scheduled-its metric near equivalent, the 1,500-meter run, was on the Koblenz menu-but meet organizers quickly obliged Ovett's request and lengthened the finish line by the required 120 yds. As good as his word, Ovett flashed across the tape...
...such major cities as Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich in order to tour what he called l'Allemagne profonde (Germany in depth). His stops included Baden-Baden, Kassel, Würzburg and Lübeck, all towns with populations under 230,000. He also made an unscheduled visit to Koblenz, 40 miles south of Bonn, where he was born in 1926; his father was a civilian official with French forces occupying the Rhineland. Often looking more populist than patrician, the spindly French President plunged into the crowds, delighting them with a spate of French-accented German phrases...