Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...team efforts, in which two or three fleet-footed (temporarily) "rabbits" are used to ensure a fast pace for the star. But O'Hara is a one-man team, and the N.Y.A.C. field was so-so at best. Nobody but O'Hara had ever run under 4 min. indoors, and North Carolina's Jim Beatty, the reigning record holder (at 3 min. 58.6 sec.), showed up only to wave at the crowd and fire the starter...
...half-mile mark, he had his mind on other things. He stepped up his pace, was running second, just a stride behind John Camien of Kansas State Teachers College. Just before the three-quarter-mile mark, he slipped past Camien, and the announcer called out the time: 3 min...
...three long laps, he ran all by himself-head down, arms pumping, opening up a 60-yd. lead. Then he flung himself across the finish line and staggered wearily down the track while officials huddled to compare their watches. Cheers almost drowned out the announcement of his time: 3 min. 56.6 sec.-a fantastic 2 sec. faster than Beatty's old world record. "You sonova-gun!" cried Beatty. "Tokyo, watch out for the U.S.A...
...that determined starting positions, moved both Vermont's Billy Kidd, 20, and Colorado's Buddy Werner, 27, into the coveted first rank. The luck of the draw gave Kidd first crack at the 10,236-ft. course-and when he flashed past the finish line in 2 min. 21.82 sec., almost 1½ sec. better than the course record, American joy knew no bounds. But Germany's Ludwig Leitner clocked 2 min. 19.67 sec., and France's Leo Lacroix cut almost a second off that. Then, high above the tree line a grinning, brown-haired Austrian...
...whistled through the ear holes in his crash helmet. Finally Zimmermann was in the homestretch, zipping through the Velodrome, a 400-yd. series of banked interconnecting turns, and on down the last, steep traverse, caroming off a final bump-and flying across the finish line in midair. Time: 2 min...