Word: meters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moments were bright, and the attitude of the least eminent athletes from the quietest sports added to that. "Up in the air, I was ecstatic, I could tell I had a good jump," cried Jeff Hastings of the U.S., still aloft after finishing fourth in the 90-meter jump. According to their own scale of accomplishments, people doing their best rejoiced. There was enough happiness in the Olympics. No need to want anything to be better. -By Tom Callahan
...sixth, wearing tasteful white-and-peach candy stripes, he took a great gulp of air, lunged out on his poles and launched himself on arm power down the 51° chute that plunges through the restaurant built atop Bjelašnica to give the downhill run the required 800-meter drop. He dropped into a textbook aerodynamic tuck, fists together in front of his face, helmet down, back parallel to the ground. "I've been winning most of the top sections," he said later, referring to unofficial split times, "so I was real smooth the first three or four...
When the best Yugoslav ski jumper, Primoz Ulaga, 21, took his turn on the 70-meter sliding board, the pines of Malo Polje seemed outnumbered by fans. The hills echoed with "U-lah-gah, U-lah-gah," probably the loudest timpani in all the long history of men and banana peels. The amazing noise brought Ulaga out of the chute splendidly, but the track's icy grooves were too narrow to contain such enthusiasm. Backing up in mid-air like a duck in the path of buckshot, Ulaga flapped in every direction until he put down gracelessly...
...women doubles will be Grace de-Fries, running 1500 and 800 meters; Kathryn Busy, sprinting 200 and 400 meters: Alice Neuhauser, who in pursuit of a pentathlon victory will double in the 55-meter dash and the 200-meter run, and Kate Wiley, who will run the vast total of 8000 meters, with runs in both the 5000-and 3000-meter events...
...Harvard women's swimming team is in eighth place after one day at the Women's Eastern Championships at Brown. The Crimson diving team led the Harvard effort, with Shannon Byrd and Jennifer Goldberg placing first and fourth respectively, in the one meter dive. (Complete results of yesterday's and today's action will appear in tomorrow's Crimson...