Word: meters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fast start too for the Russian fans, who turned out in strength at every event with red flags and bushy fur hats. Their ace speed skater Tatiana Averina won a gold in the 1,000-meter race to go along with two bronze medals in the 500 and 1,500. Galina Stepanskaya, 27, a last-minute addition to the Soviet speed skating team, took the 1,500-meter race. The favored figure-skating duo, Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev, though performing slightly off their usually impeccable form, easily won the gold medal. Also, the juggernaut Russian hockey team beat...
Kathy Lindenthal also contributed a fine performance as she placed first in the three meter diving and second in the one meter event...
Even the "experts" screwed up. Anne Henning, gold medal winner in 1972's speed skating, said that for a skater to do well in the 500 meter event, she would have to skate the first 100 meters in 10.8 seconds or less. But the first skater did an 11.7, and Henning said "Great time, great time!" And then there was anchorman Jim McKay's flub of the final hockey score, calling it 6-1 when two minutes before we'd seen Steve Jensen of the US close...
...favored to win most of the medals here at Innsbruck." Later on, after Bill Koch of Vermont finishes an unexpected second in cross-country skiing, McKay calls it "one of the great days in American athletic history." Then Werner Wolf exults over Sheila Young's record-setting 1500 meter speed skating performance, "This is America's first gold medal." The only consolation is that ABC isn't as bad now as they were at the 1972 Summer Olympics, where they showed a chart every hour or so of the number of US medals versus the number of USSR medals...
Yntema will return to his home in California and work in intensive practice sessions on a long (50 meter) course under a coach from one of the Southern California swim clubs...