Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nearly two feet; Beamon has never since come close to that prodigious leap. Then there are the form favorites who somehow fail to produce their best at the Games. In the men's discus throw, four world record holders in a row have missed winning the gold medal; each time it went to the same man: steady, nerveless Al Oerter...
Several competitors command attention in the hurdle and throwing events. Until a few weeks ago, the athlete with the surest shot at a gold medal in track seemed to be muttonchopped Rod Milburn of Opelousas, La., who has not lost a 110-meter hurdle race in two seasons. Then, in the final at the U.S. trials, he was jarred off balance and finished third, behind Tom Hill and Willie Davenport. Milburn still ranks as the favorite, but he is clearly not invincible. In the discus, Jay Silvester of Orem, Utah, was the world record holder beaten by Al Oerter...
...releases the shot with a banzai-type yell. Oldfield competed at the U.S. trials in a brief, floral-patterned swimsuit and a low-cut fishnet jersey. If these Americans fail to stir the Munich stadium crowds, West German Uwe Beyer almost certainly will. After winning the bronze medal in the hammer throw at Tokyo in 1964, Beyer gave up sport to enter his Nordic features and Mr. Atlas physique in show business. He flopped first in the movies, then as a crooner and vanished from the public eye. Now he is back, hurling the hammer better than ever...
...meters in 1968, Vera suddenly stopped and fled the track in tears, overcome by a broken romance. In Munich, Vera will probably compete in both the 800 and 1,500. In the former, though, gospel-singing Madeline Manning Jackson of Columbus will be trying to duplicate the gold medal she won last time in Mexico. Other U.S. hopes in women's track include Metric Miler Francie Larrieu, who proudly calls herself a Jesus freak, and 400-meter Runner Kathy Hammond, who is more relaxed since she decided to retain her coach as her coach but not as her fiance...
...also surprisingly strong in freestyle wrestling. Dedicated 23-year-old Dan Gable, who has won 265 of 267 matches in an eleven-year career, is an obvious gold-medal threat in the lightweight division; Wayne Wells, who finished fourth as a lightweight at Mexico, is now a welterweight and better. Among other U.S. hopes (in Greco-Roman as well as freestyle wrestling) is 444-lb. Chris Taylor, who very nearly gave up the sport after an incident that took place two years ago. "I pancaked this fellow, and I heard him screaming underneath me," he recalls. "I thought his back...