Word: meters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take form, or when its point is unbalanced to one side or the other-the spectator high in the stands comprehends the surprise first not as an aberration of numbers, of hundredths of a second, but as a jarring visual distortion; and here in the women's 100-meter freestyle, the first race of the '84 Olympic Games, there...
...Breaststroker Anne Ottenbrite, who does not, cheerfully threw Frisbees into the crowd on their way to get their medals. The Dutch women may have deserved an award for the most medals from the smallest country: a total of six, including Petra Van Staveren's gold in the 100-meter breaststroke. The Australians took a host of silvers and bronzes and seemed ready for better things. Finally, an unknown 17-year-old Aussie named Jon Sieben came out of deepest anonymity in Lane 6 to win the 200-meter butterfly over a singular West German named Michael Gross, beating Gross...
...story began at the U.S. swim trials a month before, where John Moffet, accustomed to trailing home behind Veteran Steve Lundquist in the 100-meter breaststroke, not only beat the blond, gorgeously muscled Lunk, as Lundquist is called, but set a world record of 1:02.13. At the prelims on the first morning of Olympic competition, Moffet qualified fastest, in Olympic-record time. But four strokes into the second 50, he felt a muscle let go in his right thigh. Hours later, after a shot of Xylocaine, he swam the final in pain and managed a fifth place...
Gross went on to win medals-two gold and two silver. One of the silvers, for the 4-by-200-meter relay, missed being gold by the diameter of the medallion. Earlier that day Gross had qualified for the 100-meter butterfly, then won the final with a world record of 53:08. The U.S. 4-by-200-meter relay team, knowing Gross awaited them at the anchor leg, went at their business quickly. Six other teams were in the water, but not really in the race...
Mike Heath, at 19 one of the bright new hopes of the U.S. team, swam his 200 meters in front of the pack and beat his West German opponent by a body length. David Larson gave almost a second body length to Jeff Float, another boycott veteran, swimming his last race for the team. Float gave back a little, but when Bruce Hayes hit the water for the final leg, he had a length and a half on the Albatross. Remarkably, Gross had made up almost all of it by the end of the first 50 meters. Hayes kept...