Word: mins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been withheld from women until this year, when unsinkable Benoit, 27, of Maine and Andersen-Schiess, 39, of Switzerland came to opposite conclusions in the marathon. "I was extremely comfortable the entire way. It was a very smooth, happy, training-run atmosphere," said Benoit, whose 2-hr. 24-min. 52-sec. frolic was dramatic only in light of the arthroscopic knee surgery she underwent 17 days prior to winning...
Norway's gaunt and great Grete Waitz finished second, 1 min. 26 sec. late, without encouraging any discussion of her chronically creaky back. It had been in severe spasm the day before. Benoit was "too strong," said Grete, who had never before lost a marathon that she finished. By the halfway point, according to her old Norwegian saying, "the train had already left." Waitz was one of the few runners who viewed the Swiss straggler with a totally unmixed emotion: "I would have taken her right off the track. I don't like to watch that." Benoit sighed...
...judging controversies were largely rooted in the idiosyncrasies of Olympic scoring, which rewards boxing, not brawling. Under the rules, a cleanly landed jab counts as much as a knockdown blow; in three 3-min. rounds, the objective is to be effectively aggressive, not lethal. Despite a strong third round, U.S. Middleweight Virgil Hill, 20, lost a split decision in the finals to Joon-Sup Shin because the South Korean had outpointed him in earlier rounds. On the judge's part, it takes surgical concentration to count the blows and apportion their weight. Spectators conditioned by the blood sport...
...displayed their talent and versatility to the fullest in the final. Before halftime, the Americans staged a 9-min. onslaught during which Spain yielded 11 turnovers and had no field goals and no rebounds. Patrick Ewing, the 7-ft. Georgetown center, raised his total to 19 blocked shots hi the tournament, and at one point forced a Spanish player to shoot from behind the backboard...
...been booted off the air for two weeks to make way for coverage of the Olympics. (The others: The Edge of Night and Loving.) The network's remaining soaps-All My Children, One Life to Live and General Hospital-are continuing during the Games, but in shortened, 40-min. episodes so that all three can be squeezed into a special two-hour time slot. No matter how well ABC's Olympics coverage does in the ratings (which have been excellent so far), the disarray in the network's daytime schedule could have a lasting and damaging effect...