Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mike Cook, coming off a triple gold medal performance at the Maccabiah Games, gives Harvard the continual threat of a sweep in both freestyle events, as will freshman Miles Standish...
Toller Cranston, 1972 World Free Skating Champion and 1973 Canadian Champion, and Gordon McKellen Jr., 1973 U.S. Men's Champion, also headline the event, which will include performances by gold-medal winners in U.S. and Canadian Olympic singles, pairs, and dance categories...
...basketball championships four weeks ago, an event that had been won by the Soviet Union for 18 years straight. But, said the Communist youth newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda, the real roots of the problem lay in the fact that the players had lost their proletarian humility. Since their stunning gold-medal win in Munich, it wrote, the players had turned into overconfident performers whose once brilliant strategies had become "unimaginative and stereotyped." Soviet Basketball Federation officials, the paper charged, "created a climate of total permissiveness" for the team's star players, who began to think of themselves as "irreplaceable." Hence...
Died. Abebe Bikila, 40, supple Ethiopian who became the first black African to win an Olympic gold medal when he won the marathon in his bare feet in Rome in 1960 and the only athlete to win the event twice in a row with his victory in Tokyo in 1964; of a brain hemorrhage; in Addis Ababa. An Ethiopian national hero and member of Emperor Haile Selassie's elite Imperial Guard, Bikila missed the hat trick in Mexico City in 1968 because of a strained ankle. He was paralyzed from the waist down as the result of an auto...
...medal, named for Joseph Henry, the pioneer American physicist and first Secretary of the Smithsonian, is presented to those individuals whose careers have combined unusual personal accomplishments in the arts or sciences with extraordinary service to their nation. The medal has been presented only four times since...