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...Evening with Champions," which featured 14 world class and Olympic skaters, entertained sellout audiences three nights in a row last November. Among the skaters participating was Toller Cranston, the former Canadian men's champion and 1976 Olympic silver medalist...
...qualify for the championship race Sheehan had to defeat, among others, the Olympic gold medalist in the 3000-meter steeplechase...
Facing such competition, Sheehan rose to the occasion, posting his best time ever, a Harvard record 8:01.7. to defeat the gold medalist in the heat on Friday, then bettered that time with a new school record 8:01.5 in the final Saturday...
...sixth Olympian, just a silver medalist, was hired to warm up the deep chill of the Garden, though scarcely anyone had arrived last week before 171-lb. Virgil Hill dispatched Arthur Wright in the second round. Wright trained as hard as he could, from the moment the match was arranged the day before. Last summer two North Dakota towns, Williston and Grand Forks, threw parades for Hill, 20. Nobody is fighting over him now. "I'm training out of L.A., without a manager yet," he explained in a dim dressing room, though the comparative worth of gold and silver...
...completely aware that 70% of men's clothing decisions are made by females," says Uwe. The company also has recruited such top athletes as Björn Borg, the five-time Wimbledon tennis champion, and Jürgen Hingsen, the world-record holder and Olympic silver medalist in the decathlon, to wear the Boss line...