Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's medal for coolness in a crisis goes to Ned Harris, owner of the Atlas Window Cleaning Contractors, who was plying his trade outside the 20th floor of Honolulu's Chateau Waikiki when the rope holding up his window chair broke...
Then came Montreal. A powerful East German team?older, bigger, stronger, better trained?swamped all comers, winning eleven of 13 events. U.S. swimmers managed to take only a single gold medal, the 400-meter freestyle relay. The defeat was so total, the humiliation so painful, that coaches hinted darkly of the victors' using illegal drugs during training, and some swimmers made unsportsmanlike cracks about the heavily muscled East German women...
Obviously not. Churning through the pool built by Adolf Hitler for the 1936 Olympics, Caulkins won five gold medals and broke four world records in the process. Her most dramatic victory came in the 400-meter medley over former Record Holder Ulrike Tauber, 20, who won the gold medal in Montreal. The medley is the most technically demanding event in swimming, requiring mastery of four separate strokes and three different types of turns?the test of the compleat swimmer. Caulkins beat Tauber by an astonishing seven seconds, finishing nearly half a pool length in the lead. In the 200-meter...
...American fans had a lot more to cheer about. As usual, the U.S. men's team won handily, with Soviet and East German swimmers trailing badly. Meanwhile, as the competition entered its final weekend, the American women had won 19 gold medals while the East Germans had not won a single final. California's Cynthia Woodhead won three golds, as did fellow Californian Linda Jezek, who swam off with a world record in the 200-meter backstroke. She finished in 2:11.93, more than two seconds ahead of East Germany's Birgit Treiber, the former record holder and the winner...
Number one honcho--subject to some debate--is one Robert Hackett, an All-American swimmer who as a freshman last year launched a one-man crusade against the Harvard record book. One more thing: before coming to Harvard, Bobby won a silver medal at the Montreal Olympics. He's not a bad bet to take a gold or two at Moscow, either...