Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Matt Biondi finally won his first gold by anchoring the U.S. 4 X 200-meter freestyle relay team to a world-record win in the best race of the week, roaring up from behind to beat Steffen Zesner of East Germany with the fastest 200-meter leg ever swum, as teammates Troy Dalbey, Matt Cetlinski and Doug Gjertsen bayed to the rafters at poolside. But before that, he finished third . in the 200-meter freestyle, behind Australian Duncan Armstrong and Swede Anders Holmertz, and then was just touched out (and so thoroughly flummoxed that he was muttering shoulda-coulda three...
While many Harvard students spent the summer slaving away in musty offices to earn extra money, some seniors relished in the ambiance of exotic foreign countries--and some of them even got a tanned leg up on their thesis research...
...Olympians had previously won a total of twelve national all-around titles; the '88 team has two. Time moved too slowly for those among the missing: Tim Daggett (broken leg), Dan Hayden (separated shoulder) and Sabrina Mar (chronic back disorder). Those to watch for: returning Olympian Scott Johnson, 27, who will compete with screws in his broken right hand; Charles Lakes, 24, America's first black Olympian gymnast; and Phoebe Mills, 15, the runaway U.S. Olympic trials winner...
...triple jump when Jackie took her mark in the 800-meter run, the finale of the heptathlon. If she could stay within about 15 yds. of the Australian Glynis Nunn, Jackie's lead under the weighted point system would hold up. But her left leg was bound with a hamstring wrap that crippled her confidence more than her stride...
...painful end of an Olympic dream. The young woman, who at 21 began amassing world records, established herself as America's best middle-distance runner. But luck was never with Slaney, who seemed star-crossed where the Olympics were concerned. During the 1976 Games she was laid up with leg injuries, and she had to sit out the following Olympics because of the U.S. boycott. And by the summer of '88, Slaney would turn...