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From there the Crimson moved to the Pan-American trials where the Harvard lightweights finished sixth against a field of heavyweights. The Crimson came in a scant 4 seconds behind Brown and 1.4 seconds behind Rutgers...
...Thursday took a ninth in the 200-yard individual medley and set a new Harvard record in the event, added a sixth in the 400-yard IM. Dropping over two seconds from his time in the afternoon preliminary. Brumwell, a freshman and a member of the 1971 Canadian Pan-American team, set another Harvard record. He swam the grueling race in 4:16.994 bettering Steve Krause's record by over a second...
Messing survived a year's worth of Olympic qualifications before being named the starting goalie. At the Pan-American games in Call, Colombia this past summer, the United States finished fifth out of sixteen teams and Messing was named the tournament's outstanding goalie. He held first-place Argentina to only one goal...
...displeased with the exodus because it gave Communism a black eye. Cuba might also have been concerned that the airlift was creating a "brain drain" of skilled and professional workers. But a more immediately compelling theory centered around the fact that four Cuban athletes had defected during the recent Pan-American Games in Cali, Colombia, a defection that Castro charged had been instigated...
Since their inception in 1951, the quadrennial Pan-American Games have served as a kind of Olympic warmup session for strong U.S. teams. American athletes have so dominated the Pan-Am Games, in fact, that International Olympic Committee President Avery Brundage began to wonder whether they might be too good for their own good. Shortly before the opening of the sixth Pan-Am Games in Cali, Colombia, the 83-year-old Brundage observed: "It doesn't look good for the U.S. to be collaring three-quarters of the Pan-Am medals. It's not good for sports...