Word: olympian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other record-setting swims last night included former Olympian Jill Sterkel's 1:46.13 in the women's 200-yard freestyle. Swimming against a fast field, Sterkel held off a challenge from American record holder Sippy Woodhead to touch first with a new Blodgett record...
...while in the first half it looked as if the Carolina search might be over. Led by 6 ft. 6 in. Olympian Al Wood--who finished with 18 points--they kept Indiana from scoring in the first five minutes of the game and jumped out to an 8-2 lead. But the calm Hoosier squad then ran off a string of six unanswered points and tied the game up at 8-8 with about ten minutes to go in the first half. The tide switched again, however, as Wood made an inside power move and laid...
...NOTEBOOK: The top six finishers in the mile at the NCAAs received All-American status, including Georgetown's olympian John Gregorek in sixth place...The rivalry between Beckford and Clark dates back several years to when the two competed in the national junior championships...
However, during Hackett's sophomore year, with the Crimson swimming dynasty well on its way to a second consecutive undefeated season, the once adequate number, which witnessed the former Olympian's assault on the Harvard record book while still a freshman, grew sparser by the week...
...Hammett, a surreal murder mystery directed by the German Wim Wenders; The Escape Artist, starring Ryan O'Neal's 16-year-old son Griffin; and One from the Heart. By January, Zoetrope had some 500 employees and a $600,000-a-week payroll. Inevitably, Coppola's Olympian disregard for the bottom line led to deep financial trou ble. Last spring, Hammett, which had endured a dozen rewrites on its way to filming, was shut down before completion...