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...after the eastern championships, Fatjova and Rubinowitz took off for the nationals at Red River, N.M. The alpine courses were close to unskiable, as less than half of the starters managed to finish the race. Both the slalom and giant slalom honors went to Tolil Forland, an Olympic bronze medalist from the University of Utah. Fatjova hung in on a tough slalom course to finish 28th...
...trailing, 226-210. In the opening event, the 1650-yd. freestyle, Hackett--who was probably the only swimmer in the meet not to shave his body hair (he's saving his shave for the NCAA meet)--set his third meet record in as many nights. The powerful Olympic silver medalist churned through the water in 15:22.80, which shattered the old record by more than 25 seconds, to win his third individual event and pick up the Phil Moriarty Award as the meet's individual high point scorer...
Hackett, a silver medalist in the 1976 Montreal Olympics who led Harvard to a perfect 8-0 dual meet slate this year, broke the meet record by six seconds en route to his triumph in the 500-yd. freestyle. Hackett won with a time of 4:24.47, as his teammate and classmate Michael Coglin--another Olympian (from Great Britain)--finished fifth in that race...
...spoken too, for it anticipated the passing of a giant, a unique athlete whose skills and life had resonances far beyond the ring. As Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., Cassius X, or Muhammad Ali, he had talked from center stage, mirror and lightning rod for a tumultuous era. Olympic gold medalist, Louisville Lip, upstart champion, Black Muslim convert, draft resister, abomination, martyr, restored champion, road show...
Another freshman by the name of Bobby Hackett also captured two individual events. In one of the first races this season that the sensational Olympic medalist has failed to set some kind of record, Hackett took the 50-yd. free in 21.64. Not to be denied his quota, the Yardling superstar later ripped through the water in 1:54.58 to set a new pool record in the 200-yd. butterfly...