Word: meters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last Sunday, two Harvard eights raced for over two hours straight--eight full 2000-meter pieces. The squad's two world champion strokes were playing something they call "the cadence game," which means rowing at the opponent boat's rate of strokes per minute, no matter how high that rate might be, no matter how low Parker wants...
Sato, New England's record-holding diving champ, is 14th in a field of 65 competing in the one-meter dive. If Sato can improve her place to 12th in the three dives of today's second round, then she will compete in the finals...
Sato and Downey will also compete today in the three-meter diving and 50-yd. backstroke events...
...this fool is going to drop dead on the third lap.' " Trouble was, Bayi never did. He began to make a habit of leaving astonished stars behind him. Last year at the Commonwealth Games in New Zealand, Bayi atomized Jim Ryun's seven-year-old 1,500-meter world record with a time of 3:32.2-equivalent to a 3:49.2 mile. This winter, in his debut on the U.S. indoor circuit, he has kept up the pressure. Although the smaller indoor ovals have forced him to run more cautiously, Bayi has swept all his races, including last...
Bayi is not the first East African to run into the record books. Kenyan Kip Keino won the 1,500-meter gold medal in the 1968 Olympics, Fellow Countryman Ben Jipcho is history's second fastest miler, and Ugandan John Akii-bua holds the world record in the 400-meter hurdles. Now a veritable army of runners from East Africa is readying for the Montreal Olympics next year...