Word: meters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nothing keynoted the swimming competition or the week itself more sharply than the women's 100-meter freestyle race, the first finals in the rapid white-water stream of them. When a Swiss timepiece was unable to choose between Carrie Steinseifer and Nancy Hogshead, duplicate gold medals were struck, and naturally those two were immediately dubbed the Gold Dust Twins. From their wide expressions on the unusually crowded victory stand, neither swimmer minded the company or gave much thought to absent East Germans. Regarding the boycott generally, the athletes know where the asterisks go, and will cheerfully tell anyone else...
...began his pursuit of history and Jesse Owens with the 100-meter gold medal last Saturday, Carl Lewis, 23, also took off on the most intense eight days of his life. The week before could not have been a greater contrast. In the swirl of publicity and pressure, Lewis rigorously worked at relaxing, tranquilly creating his own world. TIME Correspondent Melissa Ludtke, who first interviewed him six months ago, was permitted a rare chance to enter that world and spend some time with Lewis. Her report...
...security guards who only have eyes for stray spectators trying to pass through the chain-link fence. A female hurdler sprints along one side of the track. Lewis, his coach Tom Tellez, and Carl's friend Kirk Baptiste, a University of Houston sophomore who will run the 200 meter, set up shop on the opposite side. "Carl, go grab the tape measure!" Tellez yells from the stands. Lewis ambles over to the tape...
Zola Budd competes today in the final women's 3000-meter race at the Los Angeles Olympics. A white native of South Africa, the 17-year-old runner will represent Great Britain, her grandfather's birthplace. The objections raised this spring when Budd relinquished her South African affiliation have faded, edged out of the spotlight by larger considerations. The International Olympic Committee has ruled that Budd's hastily-acquired British citizenship satisfies its requirements, and in the shadow of the Soviet-bloc boycott of the Games, interest in Budd's bid for Olympic gold has focused on today's showdown...
...subjective side of the pool, California Diver Gregory Efthimios Louganis, 24, is held in such complete esteem that his Olympics may resemble a coronation more than a contest. The three-time world champion, who won a silver medal at Montreal, is considered a lock on the 3-meter springboard and merely the favorite on the 10-meter platform. His position in the sport is so proprietary that when a Soviet diver was fatally injured attempting a reverse 3½ tuck at a meet last summer, Louganis felt personally responsible for "pushing people to do these dives...