Word: medalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these events were largely a sideshow to the men's 100 meters. The rivalry between Carl Lewis, 27, the quadruple gold medalist in Los Angeles, and Ben Johnson, 26, began a year ago at the world championships in Rome. There Johnson set a new world record, leaving Lewis in his jet stream. Lewis was no more graceful losing in Rome than he was winning in Los Angeles: Johnson, he said, jumped...
...ahead, his U.S. teammate Andre Phillips held off Senegal's Amadou Dia Ba at the wire to set a new Olympic record of 47.19 sec. "When the race is over," Moses said later from the sidelines, "that's when you know you can't do it." But the bronze medalist -- whom Phillips praised as "my motivation, my incentive, my idol" -- insisted he would not quit the sport...
...races around the oval-shaped wooden track, cyclists usually jockey for position until an opportune moment occurs to seize the lead and outsprint one's opponent to the finish. East Germany's Christa Rothenburger Luding, a speed-skating gold medalist in Calgary, depended upon legs made strong on ice to surge to another medal last week, a silver in the 1,000-meter match sprint. That made the 28-year-old physical-education student the first athlete ever to win a winter and summer medal in the same Olympic year. Luding missed achieving a pure gold winter-summer double...
...seems certain to take the gold medal on the springboard with her clockwork precision. Teammate Li Qing, 16, will vie for the silver with American Kelly McCormick. Meanwhile, Xu Yanmei and Chen Xiaodan could finish first and second in the platform contest. In the men's events, '84 Silver Medalist Tan Liangde will test Louganis' nerve and verve on the springboard, while Li Kongzheng will chase Louganis on the platform...
...Myers fiasco was a personal disaster, and there was no question that a likely gold medalist had been lost to the team. Still, at Seoul, the U.S. would have the smallest world beater in Evans; one of the largest and most awesome in Biondi; and, unless one of the East Germans has managed to grow gills, by far the spookiest in Berkoff, the vanishing backstroker. Bring on that Korean water...