Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sounded in a bantamweight fight. When South Korea's Byun Jong-Il lost a narrow decision, his coach and trainers, along with several Korean boxing officials, poured through the ropes and pummeled New Zealand referee Keith Walker. Byun, for his part, protested the decision by refusing to leave the ring for 67 minutes. Byun and five Korean officials were suspended indefinitely, and President Kim Chong-ha of the Korean Olympic Committee resigned, taking "full responsibility" for the ruckus...
...playing on the Olympic Victrola. For just a second there, a 4-ft. 11-in. Turk seemed to be lifting a 420-lb. dumbbell, the equivalent of two Olympic committeemen. A buoyant black swimmer with ordinary thighs was receiving the gold medal. South Korea was rioting in a boxing ring. The phones were working. The laundry was ready. And in the race for regal figure, Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis both came running...
Time and waste were sore subjects at the stereophonic boxing hall, where a confusing two-ring setup with buzzers and bells froze all four fighters at times. Anthony Hembrick, Kelcie Banks and Byun Jong-Il represented independent melodramas that seemed connected. In a recurring Olympic heartbreak, the Detroiter Hembrick was left at the bus stop by miscalculating coaches. "My dream went down so fast," he said after his disqualification. "You live it every day. You sleep it. You eat it. You train it. I lost my chance to prove I was the best in the world. It will never come...
...completely pleased with himself. "To keep me from the gold," he proclaimed in the fighters' doggerel, "they'll have to knock me cold." They did, in the first round. Even so, finding a softer voice while glancing at Hembrick, Banks said, "I'd rather be carried out of the ring than never to have gone into it." When the Korean Byun lost to a Bulgarian by bitter decision, Byun wouldn't leave. All the black bow-tied referees in white had to pile through the ropes to rescue their brother from local officials and fans. It looked like a battle...
...with a booster rocket being readied for a twin of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite the Discovery crew is to launch six hours after liftoff. A cut on a small sealing O-ring on the booster rocket, destined for flight next February, was found to have a tiny cut -- apparently caused by a metal burr...