Word: meters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strain the strongest body. Kurt Bendlin, West Germany's world record holder, arrived in Mexico City complaining of two sore knees and tendonitis in one elbow. Toomey had a pulled hip muscle for which he was being treated with cortisone. Even so, in the first test, the 100-meter dash, Toomey hit the tape in 10.4 sec., best time of the day and good enough for 959 points under the complicated decathlon scoring system.* Then, a soaring 25-ft. 9¾-in. long jump, best of Toomey's career, gave him another 994 points and kept...
...area, which is entered from Bennett St, "should be available very soon"-- perhaps within a week--for parking use, Sullivan said. The poles of the parking meters once used there are still in place; only the meter heads need to be installed, he said...
...wasn't going to run until John Carlos told me I had to," said Evans. But he was clearly not taking too many orders. All three 400-meter runners wore black berets to the awards ceremony, and all three stood bareheaded at attention for their national anthem...
Swimming and diving were also dominated by the U.S. By week's end, three events had been held, and Americans had won all three-two of them, the men's 400-meter freestyle relay and the women's 400-meter medley relay, in world-record times. The U.S. basketball team was still unbeaten, heading for a showdown with the Soviet Union. But there are 19 sports in the 1968 Olympics-more than enough to give athletes from the rest of the world an opportunity to make their marks. And they did. Four of the best...
...France's Pierre Trentin, 24, a leatherworker from Créteil, a Paris suburb, was given "not a chance" to win the 1,000-meter cycling race by his own nation's sports newspaper, L'Equipe. From a standing start, he pedaled the distance in 1 min. 3.91 sec.-averaging 35 m.p.h.-to earn himself both the gold medal and a world record...