Word: runner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Davenport, 33, who was advised never to run again after he was carried off the field a year ago with a ruptured tendon in his knee, came to the U.S. trials in Eugene, Ore., spiritually and surgically renewed and won a place on his fourth Olympic team. Long Distance Runner Garry Bjorklund, 25, lost a shoe halfway through the grinding 10,000-meter race. Spurred on by the maddening memory of a foot operation that had kept him off the 1972 U.S. Olympic team, he won an emotional barefoot sprint down the straightaway to finish third and make the squad...
Track and field will be handled by Keith Jackson, assisted by Experts Marty Liquori (the distance runner injured in the Olympic trials), Brian Oldfield (a former Olympic shot-putter), Bob Seagren (of pole vault and superstar fame), O.J. Simpson (he ran sprints before sweeps) and Wyomia Tyus (100-meter gold medalist in 1964 and 1968). Jackson, along with Bill Flemming and former Olympic Stars Mark Spitz, Donna de Varona and Micki King, will cover swimming and diving, while Chris Schenkel with Cathy Rigby Mason, America's Olga Korbut, will report gymnastics. Boxing and freestyle wrestling will be called...
...Five days later in Stockholm, he won the 1,500 meters in 3:34.2, surpassing Bayi's 3:34.8 as the year's best. What makes Walker so good? Says he: "I attribute 70% of my ability to inheritance. My father was a champion cyclist, excellent runner and good tennis player." The rest is just "grinding it out in hard slog for 21 hours a week, running when the rain sets in, being buzzed by smart bastards in cars and even, like a few months ago, ending spread-eagled [but unharmed] over the bonnet of a car that...
Miller's initial success in the Open came in 1973 when he was runner up after winning the United States Championship the same year. He first came into the limelight while still a 16-year-old sophomore at Brigham Young, finishing eighth in the U.S. Open at Olympic...
...breathing sports rules and statistics; many of the women newcomers lack that heritage of trivia. Cyndi Meagher, 28, who last year was transferred from the Detroit News "Accent on Living" page to the sports department, has made a few embarrassing mistakes, like confusing a stolen base with a runner's advancing on a throwing error. One irate fan mailed her a jock strap...