Word: medal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best archers in the world. He has won the world championship twice and the national championship six times. If McKinney should develop a finger blister, the U.S. also has Darrell Pace, 27, of Hamilton, Ohio, Olympic trials winner, seven times national champion and the Olympic gold medal winner in 1976. Last year Pace seemed to have tied McKinney for the world championship, only to see one of his arrows hit another arrow in the bull's-eye and glance off into the nine ring. To have McKinney and Pace side by side on the U.S. team is like sneaking...
...heavy, tops, who figures that he has an excellent chance for gold in the 90-kg weight-lifting event. Winter is quick to add that although he was the nation's best lifter, pound for pound, at the May trials in Las Vegas, he would not be a medal prospect if the Soviet-bloc countries were coming. "Maybe a few American medals will help revive interest in the sport in the U.S.," he says wistfully. "It's been pretty depressed lately...
Talking about his sport, or sports, he sounds as if he is success fully trying to get himself to sign on the dotted line: "One of my first trainers told me that the man who wins the medal in the pentathlon is the finest athlete in the world. That has inspired me ever since. My God, the pentathlon is the ultimate competition. Not in any other competition do you find such diversity. The decathlon is all track-and-field-related, but in the pentathlon you're fencing, riding, swimming, running, shooting. Not only does it require power, speed, strategy...
...patient relatives. "Am I sacrificing something by doing this?" he asks. "No. Those people in the private sector are the ones missing out. They will never know what it is like to stand in the Olympic arena, see the flag raised and ..." Will he get a medal? He is given only a slight chance. But whatever the outcome, Storm has no regrets. "Values are permanent. Discipline is permanent. Personal growth is permanent. I know that whatever I'm doing 80 years from now, I'll be doing it right...
...fencers call, admiringly, "stealth," an ability to strike with strategic deceptiveness. She is very determined and temperamental enough to berate officials who make calls against her. But she has never gone beyond the semifinals in an international competition, and although she counts herself a good prospect for an Olympic medal, the form sheet suggests that fencing is still an Old World sport. The best women who will compete at Los Angeles are the Rumanians, Italians, French and, now, the Chinese. (The missing Bulgarians and Soviets would also have dominated...