Word: meters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Mel Pattern's poor showing in the Olympics 100-meter dash, I am quite convinced that having one's picture on the cover of TIME is . . . the kiss of death...
...victory climaxed a long procession of California triumphs. Its girl divers. both talented and pretty, won first and second in every event; San Francisco's Ann Curtis hung up a new Olympic record in the 400-meter swim. And in the individual track & field events, California's golden boys really shone. They walked off with seven gold medals-two more than the Swedes, five more than the rest of the U.S. team. Had California competed on its own in track & field in London, the tally would have read: California 102, Sweden...
...took staying power and icy nerve, as well as muscle and precision. The first day, under dismal rain, he had sweated through the 100-meter dash, broad jump, shotput, high jump, and 400-meter run. He failed to place first in a single event that day (though he tied five men in the high jump), but he was never out of the running either; the young giant hovered just behind the flashier winners, steadily piling up points. Bob Mathias (rhymes with defy us) was in third place when he tumbled into bed that night...
Discus in the Rain. The second day dawned cold and rainy. Mathias won his heat of the 110-meter hurdles, rested a while under a blanket on the wet ground, and then got up to make a mighty discus heave. But for a while no one knew just how far it was, or whether it would count, because someone had accidentally knocked over the marker showing where the discus fell. For about two hours, raincoated officials plodded around the soggy field looking for the marker. They found it at last, and measured out the longest toss...
...official marking the foul line for him with a flashlight, he threw the javelin. The few spectators who stood in the drizzling gloom could barely see the shaft as he hurled it 165 ft. 1 in. It was getting on towards midnight, and Mathias had only the 1,500-meter run left to do. If he could make it in anything like decent time, the championship was his. But could he? The boy from Tulare, Calif. (pop. 12,000) was weary, and showing...