Word: racing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rain and mud did not seem to bother the Crimson harriers as they established their position by the halfway point of the recently lengthened 10,000-meter race and coasted to an easy victory...
...race started out with a little bit of cat and mouse. Neither team was willing to make a serious move before testing out the turf. The field was still closely bunched at the one-mile point before Bickford, McNulty, Logan, Eichner and Murphy picked up the pace and moved away from the rest of the pack...
...said so yet, but he is about the only one who has not. And his supporters are fairly screaming it. As far as they are concerned, Senator Edward M. Kennedy has entered the race for the presidency, and they are working for him with that special kind of zeal that has not been seen since the days of his two older brothers. Ideology does not seem to count, as Democrats of all persuasions -and many independents too-are urging on the man who they think could restore leadership to an ineffectual White House. Draft-Kennedy movements are springing up everywhere...
Like Lundberg, Raikula qualified for the meet at the NAAU championships where he finished first in the consolation round of the 200-meter backstroke, a race in which he went undefeated in Ivy League competition last year...
...race only 0.51 seconds separated first and third place and Raikula, who was swimming in the outside lane, had to settle for the bronze, while Kyle Miller of the University of Florida won the gold and Djan Madruga of Brazil took the silver...