Word: metering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that she is getting better. "She's intense," he says. "Every week there'll be some set that she'll do faster than she's ever done before." The fact is that she is as close to a lock as bettors could ask in the 400- and 800-meter free events, and probably, despite a relative weakness in the butterfly, will take the 400- meter individual medley (100 meters each of backstroke, breaststroke, fly and freestyle...
...chance. Big Matt, to no one's surprise, took over the meet, shattering his own world record in the 100-meter free by an impressive three-tenths of a second, to 48.42. Earlier, after setting a new American record for the 200- meter free in the first day's prelims, Biondi had faded in the final and was beaten by a tick by Troy Dalbey, a largish blond fellow who looks like Actor William Hurt. No matter; Biondi was the meet's dominant swimmer. He finished the week with two wins and two seconds, thus qualifying for four individual events...
...duck-technique sensation of the trials was 100-meter Back Specialist David Berkoff, a slim-to-skinny anthropology major from, of all places, Harvard. Backstrokers coil their bodies against the side of the pool before the start, then shove violently backward with their legs, hands together, streamlined, above their heads. They go underwater this way, then pop to the surface in five meters or so and begin stroking. Except Berkoff. He stays 5 ft. underwater, on his back, wriggling along with a legs-together dolphin kick, like that used by butterflyers. This is astonishing not to see. Most...
...look in on their own progress quadrennially, hoping to gauge how far they have gone by how fast they can go, as if the breed could hope to improve on Emil Zatopek. He was the beau ideal in 1952, a balding Czech about the size of a parking meter, who ran all day and all night with his shirt peeled up and his tongue rolled down. When Zatopek raced, hearts raced. Whoever his modern descendant might be -- the Moroccan Said Aouita, likely as not -- he will almost certainly be in Seoul. Besides North Korea, only Cuba, Nicaragua, Ethiopia, Albania...
...birth to a daughter in 1986, and two weeks later was running six miles. That led to Achilles' heel damage, which required surgical repair. She emerged this spring, Achilles-healed, and at the U.S. trials she surprised experts by entering -- and winning -- both the 3,000- and 1,500-meter events. Now the prospect of a pair of gold medals in Seoul is not impossible...