Word: medalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chances are the 5-ft. 2-in., 103-lb. teen-ager will not have to. She is already the most recognizable figure in skating. The reason is simple: Zayak can do triple jumps. Until a few years ago, when Olympic Silver Medalist Linda Fratianne first began to perform those furious leaps in competition, triples were attempted by only the strongest of male skaters. Fratianne did two triple jumps in her free-skating program. Elaine Zayak does seven-and does not consider that the limit. "You have to do doubles, too, not just a triple here and there. Of course...
...lane number seven, appearing in his final dual meet for the Crimson, the Olympic silver medalist from Chappaqua, New York, Harvard's co-captain and three time All-American, Bobby Hackett...
...meter and 3-meter diving events were both won by PanAmerican Games medalist Veronica Ribot for B.U., with Crimson junior Pam Stone taking second in the 3-meter and third in the 1-meter. Crimson sophomore Adriana Holy finished second in the 1-meter by a paltry three points...
...bike speedster finished first in the women's world cycling championships in Sallanches, France. Beth, who placed third in the women's 3,000-meter speed-skating competition at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics, began bicycle racing only three summers ago, along with her quintuple-gold-medalist brother Eric, 22, as a way of keeping in condition for skating. Now she enjoys the sport as an end in itself-and as another means to Olympic gold: women's cycling has been added to the 1984 Los Angeles Games. "Cycling is exciting because anything can happen," she says...
...swimmers were in Irvine, Calif., participating in their own Olympics, the U.S. National Championships. They were racing against each other but even more against the clock, which flashed their own times alongside those of the previous week's winners in Moscow. Said Mike Bruner, 24, the 1976 gold medalist in the 200-meter butterfly: "It will make me happy if our swimmers blow away the Olympic times, especially the Russians...