Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FRIEDMAN, 28, a bantam weight lifter, was Israel's best hope for a medal. A physical education teacher in a Haifa suburb and a bachelor, Friedman came to Israel in 1960 from Poland...
...staff had warned Rick to discontinue the treatment during the Games (although a U.S. team doctor claimed that he had advised the youngster against taking the medication). Thus, despite a frantic appeal by U.S. coaches, the I.O.C. eliminated Rick from further competition and demanded the return of his gold medal, which he had already taken back to the U.S. DeMont became the best-known Olympian since Jim Thorpe in 1912 to have to return a medal...
Seagren had to go into the finals with an unfamiliar (and visibly stiffer) pole. Straining and pressing for all he was worth, he failed in three attempts to clear 17 ft. 10½ in. Wolfgang Nordwig of East Germany topped 18 ft. ½ in. to pick up the gold medal, leaving Seagren fuming with a silver. The usually easygoing U.S. vaulter thrust the pole into the hands of an I.A.A.F. official and turned away angrily from Nordwig's extended hand. Seagren returned to shake hands, but his anger was scarcely concealed. "The only difference between the pole...
...despite raucous heckling by Li's countrymen, who steadfastly ignored the officials' reprimands. When the shooting stopped, the Koreans demanded an examination of the target. Two hours later the judges reversed the computer's decision, awarded Li four more points and proclaimed him the gold-medal winner...
...coincidence that the worst of the decisions against U.S. athletes were made by European judges, especially those from Communist-bloc countries, which attach great political significance to Olympic performance and seem to regard their athletes as instruments of foreign policy. U.S. Wrestler Wayne Wells, a gold-medal winner, has his own notion: "It's the way they've been brought up. What's cheating to us is not cheating to them." The pivotal problem is that the judges are originally picked by member nations, leaving the Olympic Committee little choice but to rubber-stamp the nominations...