Word: meters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pageantry: raw, windy, drizzly. But as runners started the torch on its zigzag, 15,000-kilometer journey across 33 of the 50 American states, the dark skies seemed only to intensify the symbolic glow. The second runner, 91-year-old Abel Kiviat, silver medalist in the 1,500-meter race in the 1912 Olympics, had no inkling that anything was amiss as he ended his appointed kilometer; he lit the torch of twelve-year-old Timothy Towers, who had won the honor in a raffle, and urged, "Carry on." But as the 22nd runner, Nicole Zell, age 13, started...
This is a pang familiar to U.S. athletes, those without a place to play in 1980, particularly the ones unable to hold on another four years. "I was mad. I was bitter," remembered Chicago Runner Rosalyn Bryant, 28, whose best chance at a 400-meter medal may have evaporated with the Carter boycott. "But what can you do? The President is making the decision; he's somebody you never see. So you take it out on your family, on people you're around all of the time." Only 14 then, Gymnast Julianne McNamara could react to that boycott...
...Yale meet, three new school records were set: Mariquits Patterson long jumped an unprecedented 19-21/2 feet. Theresa Moore ran the 100 meters in a dashing 12.1 seconds, and Busby breezed by all competition in 25.1 seconds in the 200 meter...
Harvard put the lid on the Bulldogs in the final 1600-meter relay. Tom Quinn's stellar third leg put the Crimson in a lead they never relinquished...
...year characterized by a many small victories and few big victories, the Yale win being perhaps the only overall strong team performance. The smaller victories included those times Paul Gompers ran 10,000-meters under 30 minutes, and the new 1600-meter relay school record of 3:12.81 set by Herberich, who ran a 47-second leg, and his teammates at the Heps...