Word: medaled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Wood, silver medal winner in the recent Winter Olympics, holds a slim lead over defending champion Emmerich Danzer of Austria in the battle for first place...
...snow bunny named Toini Gustafsson. A gymnastics teacher, Toini already had won the 10-kilometer cross-country; in the 5-kilometer, trailing Russia's Galina Koulakova by 4 sec. with one kilometer to go, she made a kamikaze dive down the last slope to earn a second gold medal...
...sentimentalists, there was Eugenio Monti, 40, Italy's "Red Devil" of the bobsled run, a nine-time world champion but never before an Olympics gold-medal winner, who finally realized his lifelong ambition-twice over -with victories in both the two-man and four-man events. The U.S., too, had someone to cheer in Michigan's Terry McDermott, ten pounds heavier and four years older (at 27) than he was when he astonished everyone by winning the men's 500-meter speed-skating race at Innsbruck in 1964. This time, on a rink that...
...ankle. Last week, vowing "I'll either win or I'll fall," she strapped on her white helmet with TIGER emblazoned across the front and slashed through the giant slalom course with such abandon that she beat Runner-Up Annie Famose of France for the gold medal by almost three seconds...
...What value is it to a black man to win a medal if he returns to the hell of Harlem?" asks Edwards. "They are only being used to further the racist attitudes of the U.S.A...