Word: olympicsized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reporter-Researcher Jay Rosenstein, a sports buff and once a member of a Navy Officers' Candidate School swimming team that he calls "the worst," did the main reporting on the Olympic action, with assistance from Stringer Bill Carroll on the gymnastics events. Ottawa Bureau Chief John Scott covered the...
Never before in the modern Olympic Games, which date back to 1896, has the performance of a gymnast been judged perfect. But within five days last week Comaneci earned the 10.00 mark seven times. Yet never before have the Olympics seemed less perfect. Plagued first by the bitter international dispute...
In the only way they could, the athletes avenged the indignity of political manipulation and the armed-camp atmosphere of the Montreal Olympics (Canada's 16,000-man security force was omnipresent); they mounted an unparalleled assault on their own common enemy, the record book.
But it was not the swimmers who provided the opening week of the Montreal Olympics with their reigning deity. That huge mantle fell upon the tiny shoulders of Nadia Comaneci, who electrified the crowds and bollixed the computers by compiling the first perfect gymnastic scores. Performing her bold and difficult...
At the end of each flawless performance, Comaneci would flash an automatic smile across her face as if it were an electronic scoreboard and prance briefly around the platform. But the show of enthusiasm almost seemed rehearsed, and she would subside immediately into the deep reaches of her concentration and...