Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...similar action by other black African countries. One week to the day before the Olympic torch was to be borne into Montreal's stunning $700 million stadium, the Games seemed to teeter on the brink of breakup. C.K. Yang, coach of the Taiwan track team and silver-medal winner in the decathlon (1960), at least put the matter in a hopeful perspective. Said he: "It has been like this for many, many Olympics. I always cross my fingers and they always solve the problems...
Some of the more remarkable feats in this year's Olympics will be performed by athletes from fitness-crazed East Germany, where sport has become a kind of state religion. East Germany won 66 medals at the 1972 summer Olympics, a performance topped only by Russia (99) and the U.S. (94). This year the East German team will advance its assault on the Olympic hegemony of the superpowers and perhaps nudge the U.S. out of second place. One reason: East Germany has never won a gold medal for women's swimming, but by the end of its Olympic...
...favorites. Undeterred by a nasty fall this spring that knocked her unconscious and left her with a hairline vertebral fracture, Britain's Princess Anne will ride with her country's four-member equestrian team at Montreal. Her husband. Captain Mark Phillips, a member of the 1972 gold-medal team, is only an alternate this time...
...southern Australia, Roycroft is best remembered for his performance at the 1960 Rome Olympics. After having to be hoisted onto his horse by teammates because he had broken or dislocated his arm, shoulder and collarbone in a fall during an earlier, cross-country event, Roycroft clinched the gold medal for his team with a faultless show of jumping...
Died. DeHart Hubbard, 72, running broad jumper who in 1924 became the first black American to win an Olympic gold medal; following a virus infection; in Cleveland...