Word: medalist
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...Crimson's 506-point avalanche (Princeton scored 400 and Yale finished third with 191) is the largest ever amassed at the Easterns under a 12-place scoring system. This total demolished the record of 461 held by Yale's 1961 squad, which included triple Olympic gold medalist Don Schollander...
...Games should be changed. New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, a basketball gold medalist in the 1964 Olympics, predicted four years ago that politics would dismantle the 1980 Games. He believes, correctly, that the crisis of this XXII Olympiad may offer the opening to do so. The politics and commercialism of the spectacle should be radically reduced. Most athletes in competition neither want nor need the political extravaganzas and financial hype. To help rescue the Olympics from their present distress, in which this nation is unavoidably an accomplice, the U.S. might...
CHARLIE TICKNER. If Tai, Randy and Linda face tough times, consider Charlie Tickner's task. The current European champion among men's figure skaters is Great Britain's Robin Cousins, a dramatic, innovative stylist in the mold of his countryman John Curry, the 1976 gold medalist at Innsbruck. The Soviet Union...
...Americans. From Dick Button to Dorothy Hamill, American skaters have not only dominated, they have defined the standards of the sport. The entire U.S. figure-skating team was killed in a plane crash in Belgium in 1961, yet the program was strong enough to produce a gold medalist, Peggy Fleming...
...athletes every day. And lest any think that they are home free after a clean test, there is the cautionary tale of the East bloc Weight Lifter Valentin Christov. After an early test at the Montreal Games showed that he was clean, he apparently began stoking steroids. A gold medalist, he was automatically selected for a second test. This time the drugs were detected in his urine and he lost his medal and went home in disgrace...