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Meanwhile Bob Hayes and Al Oerter won gold medals in track. Hayes ran a 9.9 semifinal in the 100 meter dash for a world record that won't be recognized--it was set with the aid of a 12-mile an hour wind. His time in the final was 10.0, which ties the world mark...
...Oerter, who strained two ribs in practice less than a week ago, threw the discus an Olympic record 200 ft., 1.63 inches. Dave Weil, a Californian, took the bronze medal...
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...meter run; so Jim Grelle got to tick off that one. Half a dozen others were walking wounded: California Schoolteacher Mike Larrabee forgot an injured pancreas (courtesy of a student's accidental judo chop) long enough to breeze through the 400 meter; World Discus Champ Al Oerter strapped on a brace to protect a pinched neck nerve and beat the nearest Russian by 12 ft.; a pulled hamstring nearly benched Salt Lake City's Blaine Lindgren, but he underwent heat and sound treatments and won the 110-meter hurdles anyway...
...Discus. A fulltime computer programmer, husky Al Oerter, 26, the 1960 Olympic champion, was out of shape and practice when he stepped into the discus ring at the Mt. San Antonio Relays in Walnut, Calif. His first heave traveled 201 ft. 5 in. On his second try, he hurled the 4.4-lb. discus 205 ft. 5½ in., breaking his own year-old world record...