Word: koening
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...DIED. FANNY BLANKERS-KOEN, 85, the "Flying Housewife" who won four gold medals in the 1948 London Olympics, the most track-and-field victories by a woman in a single Olympic Games; in Amsterdam. Blankers-Koen, a 30-year-old mother of two and the oldest woman on the track, was dismissed as past her prime before the Games. But the Dutch runner stunned critics by winning the 100-m and 200-m sprints, the 80-m hurdles and the 4 x 100-m relay...