Word: relays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nothing of the sort. When the six men's events were over, U. S. swimmers had won the 100-metre backstroke (Adolph Kiefer), 400-metre free style (Jack Medica). Japanese swimmers had won only three events (200-metre breast stroke, 1,500-metre free style, and 800-metre relay). U. S. victories by Dick Degener and Marshall Wayne in springboard and platform diving respectively clinched aquatic superiority...
...Dutch girls. The Netherlands' equivalent of Jesse Owens and No. 2 celebrity of the Games turned out to be a ponderous 17-year-old from Rotterdam named Hendrika Wilhelmina Mastenbroek, who won both the 100 and 400-metre free style races, helped her team win the 400-metre relay. Because her pretty teammate, Dina Senff, took the 100-metre backstroke title, little Holland won every swimming event on the program except the 200-metre breast stroke which went to Japan. The high-powered U. S. swimmers got no first prizes...
...third, he won the broad jump with a new Olympic record (26 ft., 5 21/64 in.). On the fourth, he won the 200-metre dash with a new world's record (20.7 sec.) for a track with a turn. Finally, selected for the U. S. 400-metre relay team, he helped it equal the world's record in a trial heat, break it winning the final...
...Relay. Last week's opening ceremonies were the last stage in a concentrated year-long ballyhoo which made the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, loudest previous sports event in history, seem, by comparison, as quiet as a race between two trained fleas around the brim of a felt hat. Climax was the Torch Relay from Olympia to Berlin which started fortnight ago, after the sun's rays had been used to kindle a fire in the ruins of the Temple of Zeus. At Paracin, Yugoslavia, last week, the flame went out when a runner got a defective torch...
While the ceremonious procession of the Torch Relay made big news in Europe, it was overshadowed in the U. S. Press last week by other doings in Berlin. Unwilling to permit the approach of the Olympic Games themselves to dampen their enthusiasm, U. S. athletes and their keepers continued to behave as unpredictably as ever...