Word: metering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Britannia did not exactly rule the Olympics, but she did score impressively in important track events. In addition to the gold earned by Coe and Ovett, Britain's Allan Wells won the 100-meter dash and Daley Thompson took the decathlon. With 36 nations heeding President Carter's call for a boycott over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, there was little else for the West to cheer about. Pietro Mennea, a flamboyant Italian, finished first in the 200-meter run, and Ethiopian Miruts Yifter, listed as 35 but rumored to be in his 40s, captured...
...marathon, Waldemar Cierpinski, 29, of East Germany became the first runner to repeat as champion since Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia accomplished the feat in 1960 and 1964. In the 3,000-meter steeplechase, Bronislaw Malinowski, 29, of Poland finally finished on top after coming in fourth at Munich, second at Montreal. Filbert Bayi, 27, a Tanzanian miler running only the sixth steeplechase of his career, appeared to have the race in hand, leading by as much as 50 meters. But Malinowski mounted a stirring comeback and overtook Bayi with about 150 meters remaining. His time was 8:09.7, the fastest...
Mennea, 28, became the first Italian runner to win a gold medal in track and field since 1960 when he finished first in the 200-meter dash. Disgusted by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, he agonized for months over whether to go to Moscow-and continued to agonize once he arrived. Said'he: "The pressure of being the favorite with no Americans here, and the bitterness of the boycott ... cracked my nerves." On the track he had to worry about Wells, 28, a Scotsman. "I knew from the semifinals of the 100 that he was two meters faster...
...Calif., participating in their own Olympics, the U.S. National Championships. They were racing against each other but even more against the clock, which flashed their own times alongside those of the previous week's winners in Moscow. Said Mike Bruner, 24, the 1976 gold medalist in the 200-meter butterfly: "It will make me happy if our swimmers blow away the Olympic times, especially the Russians...
Ovett, a onetime art student from the seaside resort of Brighton, trains obsessively, running as much as 160 miles a week, compared with Coe's 50 to 70. Before the Olympics, Ovett downplayed the 800-meter contest. Said he: "I'm in the 800 because I'm in Moscow and I do want to win it. But the race is over too quickly for me." Even so, the cocky, sometimes surly mile record holder gave himself a 50% chance of winning. What is worse, at least from Coe's standpoint, is that he has upped...