Word: meters
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...gold with a superlative score on her tenth and last dive. ("Divin' is just landin' on your head ten times out of ten," she had said after the preliminary round, in her husky, Dead End Kid's voice.) She stood there on the 3-meter board, hands on hips, gathering herself. Then she marched sturdily to the end of the board, turned, stood motionless and threw a back 2½ that missed high excellence by an ounce or two of rebounding water. Bernier won the gold by 530.70 to 527.46. Seufert, who had overcome a shaky start...
Neither McCormick nor Seufert slacks courage, but each has dropped out of platform diving. McCormick once ticked the 10-meter platform with one leg after taking off, and "lost the water" (lost track of her position in the air). She landed badly, and the impact enlarged what she figures was a small cut on her shin to an ugly eight-inch gash, whose scar is still there. Seufert bruised the back of her neck severely in hitting the water on a 10-meter dive, later reinjured herself the same way, and eventually noticed a tingling in her fingers. A neurologist...
...women on the U.S. team admit that there is a "fear factor" to 10-meter competition. Wendy Wyland, a compact, agile, formidably confident 19-year-old who was the current world champion as competition started, talks of her "cat sense," and says that she has never for so much as an instant been lost in the air. Nevertheless, her fear of losing her orientation in mid-dive is so great that she seeks help for it from a sports psychologist who is on call to the team. Michele Mitchell, 22, missed her hand grab (divers clasp their hands as they...
...yourselves." Splinter Evelyn Ashford, usually a retiring soul, told ABC television that running gave her "a feeling between space and time... You don't get it often, but when it's there, it's better than having sex." Brisco-Hooks celebrated her 400-meter-race gold medal by dropping to her knees in prayer, then jumping up and down in a massive family bear hug with her husband and two-year...
...sports authorities still appear to favor the development of women gymnasts at the expense of men. Only two male gymnasts appeared in Los Angeles, and neither placed in the top 20. Rumanian women have shown sharp improvement in track and field. They finished first and third in the 800 meters and first in the long jump. Most glowing of all, Maricica Puica, 34, won a startling victory in the women's 3,000-meter race followed by a bronze in the 1,500 meters...