Word: metering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million 440-meter track is the only major running facility in the area with eight lanes, a necessary condition for the events, says Pat Miller, associate director of athletic...
...world championships last year, he "felt things really coming together. Two weeks before the racing started. I got into a pattern where every day was better than the day before. I don't think I ever thought that I--or anyone, for that matter--could do 500-meter pieces that fast...
Surprisingly, he got off to a slow start in the 2000-meter race, and dropped into a group with the fifth- and sixth-place rowers. "It seemed like two three-boat races. But with 450 meters left, I had caught up with the Russian. I said, 'Holy shit.' I figured if he had drifted back that far, he was dead meat...
Sophomore Peter Egan explained that he had a "pretty decent chance" of making the U.S. Olympic team during the June trials. Ranked ninth in the nation in the 200-meter butterfly, he would have to be one of only two chosen for the event. "It's a big step, but not out of the question...
...following days, records were broken, and reputations were made by such athletes as Babe Didrikson and Buster Crabbe. The most sensational events were men's track and field, in which new world marks were set nearly every day. Probably the most heart-stopping was the 5,000-meter run: Ralph Hill, a hitherto unknown American, raced after the world-record holder, Finland's Lauri Lehtinen. Hill tried to pass him on the outside, then the inside, and was finally beaten in a virtual dead heat. The largely American crowd was angry at first, believing that the Finn...