Word: medalist
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Since the scores in team competition count for half of a gymnast's total in the all-around finals, it appeared that Comaneci had no chance to repeat as gold medalist. Yet she reeled off a 10 on the parallel bars and began the last rotation as one of three women with a shot at top honors...
...first 10 in men's Olympic competition, a feat he accomplished on the rings, probably the most difficult gymnastic event. He had hardly left the floor when Alexander Tkachov of the U.S.S.R. turned in a 10 on the horizontal bar. Then Zoltan Magyar of Hungary, a gold medalist at Montreal, received a 10 on the pommel horse. Finally, a Bulgarian, Stoyan Deltchev, 21, scored the fourth 10 of the day, on the rings. Male gymnasts took the high marks as a sign that their sport was at last approaching the kind of perfection known in women's gymnastics...
...That pride produced ten new Trials records during the first five days of competition, precisely the number of records set during the same period of the 1976 Trials. If no one was falling down to kiss the track after finishing third-as Mike Shine, the 400-meter hurdles silver medalist in 1976, had done when he qualified for the team that year-there were moments of world-class jubilation. Karin Smith, 24, last week's women's javelin champion, danced around the infield, stabbing her fist into the air. Anthony Campbell, 20, who finished third behind heavily favored...
Rori Ballatore's UCLA Bruins rode the back of multitalented Brian Goodell into fourth place. Goodell set an NCAA record in the 1650-yd. freestyle, coasting to a win in 14:54.07. The two-time gold medalist never looked back during the race, afterwards picking up his third individual crown and the high point trophy. He is also the three-time winner of the 500-yd. free...
Third place will likely go to one of the Los Angeles schools. UCLA, with Olympic gold medalist Brian Goodell and junior college transfer Bill Barrett leading the way, trounced USC for second at the PAC-10 meet, but any Peter Daland-coached group with as much latent talent as the Trojans cannot be discounted...