Word: metering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet care and feeding of athletes at times looks enviable, it is far from perfect. For one thing, it can be ruthless. After Kayaker Nikolai Oseledetz shared victory in the four-man team, 10,000-meter event at the 1986 world championships, he asked for a Moscow apartment and was told he would get one. After he was cut from the national team the next year, he was brusquely informed no more flats were available and continued to reside, apart from his wife of five years and son, in a drab room he shares with another kayaker. That separation...
...this good -- but not great -- 200-meter runner suddenly blasted the 100-meter record by a preposterous, in sprinter's terms, .27 sec.? And done it at an age, 28, when most athletes are losing half a step? Some have whispered, as they have about countless other athletes, that performance-enhancing steroids have to be a factor behind such dramatic improvement. Griffith Joyner attributes it to hard work and collaboration with her husband of almost a year, Triple Jumper Al Joyner (who narrowly missed a berth on this year's team). "I've trained a lot harder, maybe three times...
...that time, Kersee was coaching both her and Al, and on a remarkable August night the two schemers from Piggott Avenue made history. Al had all but won the triple jump when Jackie took her mark in the 800-meter run, the finale of the heptathlon. If she could stay within about 15 yds. of the Australian Glynis Nunn, Jackie's lead under the weighted point system would hold up. But her left leg was bound with a hamstring wrap that crippled her confidence more than her stride...
...must hail from one of the shrines of the chlorinated In crowd -- Leipzig, Mission Viejo or Moscow. Not so. Tamas Darnyi, 21, lives in Buda, the historic section of Budapest. The Hungarian's specialty is the demanding individual medley, in which he holds the world record for both 400-meter and 200-meter events. Darnyi has won every major meet he has entered since 1985. The medley requires phenomenal skill in backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle. The shy bachelor, who was named Hungary's Athlete of the Year in '87, will try for three gold medals in Seoul. In addition...
Unlike many other athletes, Darnyi prefers to race not against the clock but against the competition on a given day. In Seoul he will be pacing himself against California's David Wharton, 19, whose mark of 4:16.12 in the 400-meter medley is just a fraction of a second behind Darnyi's record of 4:15.42. Oddly, each man suffers from a sensory disability. Wharton is partially deaf and wears a hearing aid when on dry land. Darnyi has had only partial sight in his left eye since 1983. "We were fooling around in the snow when a snowball...