Word: metered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...medal in the double sculls, a bronze in the coxless fours. Darkness had already fallen over the Toda rowing course by the time the big race for eight-oared shells got under way, and flares burst overhead as crews from six nations stroked their way down the 2,000-meter course. The odds-on favorite: Germany's Ratzeburg eight, back to defend the Olympic title they won in 1960. Coxed by Robert Zimonyi, at 46 the oldest man on the U.S. Olympic team, the Vesper Boat Club crew was rated no better than third. They had lost a preliminary...
...still enough glory to go around. No fewer than 28 nations had something shiny to be proud of. "I couldn't go home without a medal," panted Cuba's Enrique Figuerola, who ran the race of his life to finish second behind Bob Hayes in the 100-meter dash. Japan swept three gold medals in Western-style wrestling. Rumania's leggy Iolanda Balas broke her own Olympic high-jumps record by 2½ in., soaring 6 ft. 2¾ in., and Kenya's Wilson Kiprugut won his new country's first Olympic medal when...
...very first American in the pool, California's Gary Ilman, shattered the Olympic record for 100 meters; before he could even write home about it, all sorts of people were beating the mark, too-and Gary found himself just the fourth-best 100-meter man in the world. "Somebody's gonna break the world record in the 200-meter backstroke," predicted Princeton's Jed Graef, 22. Who might that be? "Me," said Graef, and hit the electronic touchboard in 2 min. 10.3 sec., barely edging Teammate Gary Dilley...
Three days before he was due to swim in the 400-meter individual medley (butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle), California's Dick Roth, 17, was stricken with an appendicitis attack. Rushed to a hospital, he was fed intravenously, packed in ice. Roth refused medication: "If it has to come out, O.K.," he said, "but if it doesn't, I don't want to be punchy for the race." Then he went out and chopped 3.1 sec. off his own world record...
...Three. There was talk that the U.S. might take every gold medal in the men's events. Three Australians -Ian O'Brien in the 200-meter breaststroke, Bob Windle in the 1,500-meter freestyle and Kevin Berry in the 200-meter butterfly-ended that discussion. So the U.S. settled for eight of the first eleven...