Word: medals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...around several disconsolate Kenyans, still wearing the red warmup suits they had on when they learned of their government's "withdraw immediately" decision that morning. By week's end 25 countries represented by 697 athletes were out of the Games. Gone with them were such potential gold-medal winners as Track Stars Mike Boit of Kenya, Miruts Yifter of Ethiopia and John Akii-Bua of Uganda. Gone too was any hope that such prestige races as the 800 and 1,500 meters could have the stature of world-championship events...
...surprise, Harvey Glance, 19, a diminutive (5 ft. 7 in.) Auburn University freshman who has never competed internationally. Says Glance of his Olympic chances: "I take pressure well." So does a fourth big figure in the field, Russia's Valeri Borzov, 26, the '72 gold medal winner who has recovered from a spring leg injury. He might be worth, well, a glance...
...came last month at the A.A.U. championships in Los Angeles, where she outthrew her closest competitor by nearly 15 ft. The U.S. Olympic trials showed that the women's track and field team is substantially stronger than had originally been thought, but its best hope for a gold medal still rests in the hands, and arm, of California's Kathy Schmidt. (At Munich, the U.S. women won no golds; not since Mildred McDaniel took the high jump at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics has a U.S. woman won a field event...
...Says he: "When I was a kid I dreamed of becoming an Olympic champion in something, in anything. I mean literally dreamed. I could see that little piece of gold in my hand. Now I've got it. But Jenner, he's too anxious to grab that medal away from me." Says Jenner of Avilov's composure: "He was so relaxed before the final event at Munich that he freaked me out. I would have been in a straitjacket myself...
...evening and working on technique in between, Jenner is eager to cash in on his training. A strikingly handsome man with chestnut hair, sparkling hazel eyes and a smile so toothsomely bright that it seems capable of tanning his exquisitely chiseled features, Jenner believes that a gold medal would ensure him lucrative advertising offers and possibly even a movie career. And if he wins the gold, Jenner, the son of a Connecticut tree surgeon, promises not to make the same mistake as Mark Spitz: "I'll show personality...