Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SEOUL, South Korea--Canadian Ben Johnson was stripped of the gold medal yesterday for his world record-setting 100-meter victory after testing positive for steroids...
...said the medal would be awarded to American Carl Lewis, who won the long jump yesterday. IOC spokeswoman Michele Verdier said the medal could be given to Lewis or first place would be left vacant...
Johnson, the third athlete in this Olympics to be stripped of a gold medal, was flying home to Toronto, leaving Olympic officials shaken and Canadian coaches stunned...
...finally has its day in the sun. But at the end of Week One, the network is far from achieving even medal contention for its Olympic performance. The American public seems to be avoiding the Olympics; ratings are down by about 30 percent from ABC's 1984 Los Angeles games...
...most dramatic stories of the games so far has been Greg Louganis' gold medal victory in springboard diving after smashing his head on the diving board in a preliminary round. During his final dives, Louganis was forced into a split screen with a basketball game, whose announcers were doing the play-by-play. If NBC wanted to give us a sense that there is a lot going on at the same time, they succeeded. But who wants to hear about a missed free throw in the first few minutes of a basketball match when one could be concentrating...