Word: medaled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...international competition since 1963 got its comeuppance from a gang of slam-bang Czechs, who spotted the Soviets a 1-0 lead, then struck back to win 5-4 and pull off the biggest upset of the entire winter games. Russia still managed to salvage a slightly tarnished gold medal when the Czechs could manage no better than a 2-2 tie in their final game against Sweden...
Harvard has been just as delighted with Krause. Varsity coach Bill Brooks called him "the best freshman swimmer ever to enter Harvard--including Neville Hayes who won a bronze medal in the 1960 Olympic games...
...Harvard, Krause has already re-written the record book in two events. His 4:55.8 clocking in the 500-yard freestyle eclipsed Don "Gold Medal" Schollander's pool record by 1.4 seconds. Krause also holds the freshman, Harvard, and pool records in the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:02.3. He set both marks last Saturday against the Princeton freshmen...
...stay France's Jean-Claude Killy, 24, from the swift completion of his appointed round. Favored to win all three Olympic Alpine races-downhill, giant slalom, special slalom-Killy was under tremendous pressure. "He's too tense," insisted Austria's Toni Sailer, himself a triple gold-medal winner in 1956. "He can't win." But on the day of the downhill, the pressure seemed to ease. Killy stood patiently at the starting gate, the picture of confidence as he awaited his turn and checked the speeds of competitors. He was No. 14, and by the time...
...performance that won Peggy her Olympic gold medal was strictly 24-carat. For two days, under the intense scrutiny of nine judges, she traced on the ice "paragraph loops," "rockers" and "brackets" (all variations on the basic figure eight) with such precise symmetry that by the end of the compulsory figures-which count for 60% of a skater's score-she had a virtually unassailable lead of 77.2 points over her closest competitor...