Word: metering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Junior Rutledge Simmons leaped 44-ft., 7-in. in the triple jump, Tim Harte finished the 1000-meter race in 2:30, Chris Sullivan jumped 6-ft., 8-in. in the high jump, and Nick Sweeney racked up a pair of third place finishes in two field events...
Three different trackmen posted career-best performances, and John Koenigsknecht captured the 500-meter race with a time...
...Olympic bobsled run for $20. Before the ride ! was closed to tourists last month, the same 60 seconds of terror cost $39. A simulated bobsled run at the Olympic Center downtown is free but is a pale imitation of the real thing. The equally free simulation of the 90-meter ski jump, however, is realistic enough to discourage all but the most demented from thinking about attempting the actual hill. Fortunately, that is a thrill forbidden to foolish amateurs...
...reporters have their most penetrating questions ready (How tall do you have to be to qualify for the giant slalom?), having just reminded themselves that luge is the French word for Flexible Flyer. At Sarajevo four years ago, intent on seeing those marvelous birdmen sail off their 90-meter sliding boards, two sportswriters hopped an unattended ski lift. Halfway up the foggy mountain, the one from Atlanta asked the handsomer one from New York, "Is this more dangerous than you thought?" The chair seemed to tilt away, leaving them hugging the frame and dangling in the sky. It wasn...
...Kania says, "My aim is two gold medals in the Olympics." How about three? "Oh, no! Just two." And she waves off any bad luck that might come of talking about impossible feats. In fact, at Calgary she is favored in the 1,000- and 1,500-meter races; she holds the world record for both distances. And she is a contender in the 5,000-, 3,000- and 500-meter events, though she says the last "is now too short...