Word: medal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...police officer in Cairo limits his daily workout to spare time. Before the Soviet-bloc pullout, Neguib guessed his average throw (203 ft.) might rank him eighth in the world, behind two Russians, two East Germans, two Americans and a Cuban. Now, eerily, he has a shot at a medal as bronze as the Sphinx...
...absence of the East Germans, the Soviets and the other Communist boycotters, the medal yield of the U.S. team is sure to be markedly inflated, though the spirit of the athletes may not be deflated in the least. This is almost certainly the best American Olympic team in history, the first true team as one thinks of a team, convened if not assembled the year round. These 630 men and women, from Yachtsman William Buchan, 49, to Gymnast Michelle Dusserre, 15, are the long-awaited first crop from the Amateur Sports Act of 1978, the charter beneficiaries of the stepped...
...bright in any company ("I'm looking forward to gloating over the performances of U.S. athletes," Men's Coach Larry Ellis cannot resist saying), and before the boycott, the track women were poised to re-emerge as a significant power after twelve years without a gold medal. "The U.S. has the most diversified gene pool, the best facilities and the best coaching," says Women's Coach Brooks Johnson. "It was a myth that the athletes are better or that the coaching is better behind the Iron Curtain. We're now getting what they had all along...
...past eight years has logged more success or felt less appreciated than Edwin Moses, 28. After he and Mike Shine brought the U.S. both the gold and the silver in the 400-meter hurdles at Montreal in 1976, their joyous victory lap faded quickly. "I had a gold medal and a world record," Moses says, "but guys who had never competed in the Olympics were getting top billing over me." He reacted badly, and the popular descriptions of him in press accounts became "sullen" and "angry...
...High Jumper Dwight Stones won the gold medal as he predicted-no, promised-in 1976, he would probably be a spectator by now, a television commentator most likely. As it happens, he is a part-time member of the ABC Olympic broadcasting team. Eleven years after making his first world mark at 19, the lovable loudmouth in the Mickey Mouse shirt flopped backward over a 7-ft. 8-in. bar last month at the trials and landed somewhere in his own past, right back in the thick of the sport...