Word: medal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traditional virtues of technical mastery and elegant style. He relentlessly kept the pressure on Vidmar, racking up superior scores like a machine. In a total of 18 routines, he scored 9.90 or better on 13 of them. Vidmar, by being only slightly less consistent, ended up with the silver medal, still an impressive accomplishment...
This baying, to be sure, did not noticeably discourage the guest athletes. The Canadians, who had not won a gold medal in Olympic swim competition since 1912, collected four golds, three silvers and three bronzes. Their heroes, two-time gold Medleyist Alex Baumann and Breaststroker Victor Davis, who have maple leaves tattooed on their chests, and Breaststroker Anne Ottenbrite, who does not, cheerfully threw Frisbees into the crowd on their way to get their medals. The Dutch women may have deserved an award for the most medals from the smallest country: a total of six, including Petra Van Staveren...
...Olympic record. West German Thomas Fahrner got so angry at himself for failing to qualify for the 400-meter freestyle that in the consolation he broke the brand-new Olympic record just set by George DiCarlo of the U.S. He got an Olympic record, a big hand, but no medal...
...like a kid jumping a curb, to victory only inches ahead of Teammate Rebecca Twigg. With that, Carpenter entered the record books as the first woman in history to win an Olympic cycling event and the first American to be awarded gold in the sport (the single previous U.S. medal: a bronze...
...competitors and given short shrift to the athletes of other nations. The expert commentators, almost all of them former U.S. Olympians, have been particularly prone to this. Gymnast Cathy Rigby McCoy, for example, repeatedly implied that the U.S. women gymnasts had been cheated of the team gold medal by judges who favored Rumania or China...