Word: metering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During its sessions, the I.O.C. approved a clutch of new women's events, including a bicycle race of either 50 or 70 km, the 400-meter intermediate hurdles and the 3,000-meter run. The last event leaves female distance runners less than 25 miles short of their goal: a marathon for women. One less orthodox addition is windsurfing, in which both sexes may compete. Naturally, there were some losers too: table tennis was rejected...
...British are also planning a demonstration-and it could prove the most dazzling of the Games: the 1,500-meter race, featuring Englishmen Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett. Astonishingly, they have met only once before. In an 800-meter duel in 1978, they exhausted each other with kamikaze sprints, only to be passed by a third runner in the stretch. In Moscow, Coe is favored at 800 meters, and Ovett is given a nanosecond edge in the 1,500. Jim Tuppeny, a U.S. track official who is organizing an alternate meet in Philadelphia this month, handicaps the 1,500 this...
...meter races also offer a classic matchup: Lasse Viren, the Finn who won both events in 1972 and 1976, and Miruts Yifter, a fast-finishing Ethiopian who missed the 1976 Olympics due to an African boycott of the Games. Viren is entered in the 10,000 but is so far undecided about whether to run the 5,000 or the marathon...
...least four U.S. men would have been favored to win gold medals in track and field: Edwin Moses (400-meter hurdles), Renaldo Nehemiah (110-meter hurdles), Larry Myricks (long jump) and Mac Wilkins (discus). In addition, Sprinters James Sanford (100 meters), LaMonte King (200) and Billy Mullins (400) have world-best times this year...
...keep the 1,800 men on Diego Garcia from going "rock happy," the Navy has provided softball fields, volleyball, handball and tennis courts, and a 25-meter swimming pool for those who are afraid of the sharks. There is also a popular off-duty hangout known as the Diego Burger...