Word: metering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members of the American Olympic team. In the 1930s, Babe Didrikson and Jesse Owens came to national attention at the Trials, foreshadowing the performances that made the 1932 Los Angeles and 1936 Berlin Games memorable. Last time, a hurdler named Edwin Moses set an American record in the 400-meter hurdles. He went on to etch a world mark at Montreal in 1976 and has since put together a string of 40 consecutive victories...
...will ever know. The best that American athletes can hope for is a meeting with Moscow medalists during the post-Olympic competition later this summer in Europe. As 800-meter Champion Don Paige told TIME'S Peter Ainslie, "I'll hang my new Olympic team suit in my trophy case and hope that I have a newspaper clipping about how I ran against a Moscow Olympic winner to hang next to it. Then I'll sit down and speculate about how I might have done in the Olympics...
...have their pride." That pride produced ten new Trials records during the first five days of competition, precisely the number of records set during the same period of the 1976 Trials. If no one was falling down to kiss the track after finishing third-as Mike Shine, the 400-meter hurdles silver medalist in 1976, had done when he qualified for the team that year-there were moments of world-class jubilation. Karin Smith, 24, last week's women's javelin champion, danced around the infield, stabbing her fist into the air. Anthony Campbell, 20, who finished third...
...Best, Heming way would spend four to five hours a day at her home in Ketchum, Idaho, swimming, skiing, jogging, riding horses, climbing mountains or tumbling on the family trampoline. To play a pentathlon competitor, she stretched her repertory to include the shot put, high jump, long jump, 200-meter dash and 80-meter hurdles. All this exercise has given the actress some impressive new muscles. She says: "You can see them get larger; they feel stronger. You become real conscious of them, but not in a vain...
...Sophomore Larry Countryman placed 12th in the 800 with a time of 8:30.9 and Sophomore David Lundberg powered through the 200 meter breaststroke in 1:08.6 putting him 12th overall too. In addition Bernal said sophomore Ted Chappell swam a 'great 200 fly and looked super.' He also mentioned incoming freshmen Mike Miao, who took fifth in the 100 free, and Greg Eckstrom, a butterflyer and backstroker, who should boost the program next year...