Word: medal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sophomores (including cox Ted Tsomides) will join Altekruse in the shell. But though it's a young team, it doesn't lack experience. As far back as 1976, stroke Matt Arrott, seven-man John MacEachern and Altekruse (number six this year) teamed with a fourth to tale a silver medal in the World Junior Championships held in Austria...
...disappointed freshman summed the meet up right there--big guns. The balance that Randy Reese brought with him from Gainesville enabled the squad to nail down a ton of consolation points, but their lack of medal-winners relegated the team to a back seat, while Par Arvidsson led the Bears with two wins for the second straight year...
Hurrah for the hockey team! Who said the Olympics aren't political? At the medal presentation every American pore oozed with nationalistic pride...
...dead boxers included some of America's finest nonprofessionals. Lemuel Steeples, 23, from St. Louis, was considered by many to be the leading amateur welterweight in the U.S. "We looked for him to win a gold medal at the Olympics," said Ed Silverglade, chairman of the A.A.U. international selection committee. Andre McCoy, 20, of New Bedford, Mass., was touted among the nation's top three light heavyweights. Also killed was the team's coach, Thomas ("Sarge") Johnson, 58, who trained the U.S. boxing squad that won five gold medals at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal...
...primary instigator of that "creation" took the same route as Bernal. Following his coach from Fordham Prep in the Bronx, Bobby Hackett came to Harvard in 1977 toting a little more than the usual college freshman paraphenalia--a silver medal from the Montreal Olympics...