Word: olympian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Should the U.S. now dominate the Games for the first time since 1968, some collective credibility will be tempered, but the individual gains should be as rich as ever. In addition to Carl Lewis, America certainly has an Olympian abundance...
They may not be recognizable, but they are equally Olympian...
...bodyguard count alone is positively Olympian. At full strength, there will be 16,000 armed officers on patrol during the Games. Aiding them will be about 8,000 unarmed private security guards. Dressed in blue-and-tan uniforms, the private guards will monitor the Olympic Villages, event sites and hotel lobbies. They will also be on duty at the warehouses and shipping docks of the food caterers for the athletes, making sure that no tampering occurs and that delivery trucks are properly sealed...
...reached the peak he had set out for, "to have a good time and make the Olympics." Tonie Campbell, who followed Foster in the 110-meter hurdles, exclaimed, "Being an Olympian is better than landing on the moon!" Al and Jackie Joyner, a triple jumper and heptathlete, went in as a family entry. Carol Lewis was hoping to make it two brother-and-sister teams in the long jump. For the Lewis family, the wind on the Coliseum floor was the only ill omen. "If there were flags out there on the runway," Carl said, "they...
...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 with youthful resilience, tell herself, "I'm an Olympian, and I'll always be," and sweat away another four years...