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...some future Olympics, other athletes would swim faster, jump higher, throw farther; and some day it might not matter any longer that the U.S. had beaten Russia in their private battle for supremacy in the Games (see box). But the memories would stay -of Bob Schul sprinting across the finish line in the 5,000-meter run, the first American ever to win the race, soaked with rain, plastered with mud, a look of utter rapture on his upturned face. Of Russia's Elvira Ozolina, crushed by her defeat in the women's javelin, rushing wildly into...
...Schul became the first American to win the 5000 meters, coming home just in front of Germany's Harold Norpoth, Bill Dellinger of the U.S. was just one second back of Schul to take the bronze medal...
...Schul and Hayes Jones won Olympic gold medals for the United States in track and field, and the U.S. fished four final first places out of the swimming pool in Tokyo yesterday...
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...Mexico Science Teacher George Young has charged over hurdles and splashed through water in hopeless pursuit of the Soviets; this time he caught them for a richly deserved win in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. The U.S. has never produced a better man at 5,000 meters than Bob Schul of Ohio's Miami University; the Russians did not believe it -until he left them staggering with a blazing 54.8 sec. for the last...