Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...distant second behind Gerry Lindgren in the 10,000. But he could do one thing: he could sprint pretty well in the final lap. "I'm going to win this thing if I have anything left at the end," he told his wife after clipping off a 23.8-sec. 200 meters in practice...
...Never Heard of Him." Anybody else would have laughed. Mills's best time for 10,000 meters was 29 min. 10.4 sec., nearly a minute slower than Australian Ron Clarke's world record. And for half the race, there was Clarke striding rhythmically, effortlessly around the track, burning out his challengers. With a badly twisted ankle, Gerry Lindgren was struggling just to finish, and the crowd in National Stadium waited patiently for Clarke to shake the other also-rans: Tunisia's little Mohamed Gamoudi, Ethiopia's Mamo Wolde-and Billy Mills. But on and on they...
...tangle of flailing arms and legs. Mills stumbled, recovered, and dashed forward again. Arms pumping, legs churning, his face an agony of effort, he raced past Clarke, past Gamoudi, past the finish line-to win by four yards, set a new Olympic record of 28 min. 24.4 sec. and score the biggest upset of the 1964 games...
...rest of the world thought it had caught up, the U.S. pulled ahead once again-as in the 100-meter dash, won by a German in 1960, this time back in U.S. hands when Florida A. & M.'s Bob Hayes ripped off a fantastic (but wind-aided) 9.9 sec. in the semifinal and tied the world record with a 10-sec.-flat clocking in the final. After one astonishing U.S. victory in track and field, a Japanese spectator turned to an American in the stands and said simply: "I congratulate you"-as if the entire U.S. were responsible...
...Gary found himself just the fourth-best 100-meter man in the world. "Somebody's gonna break the world record in the 200-meter backstroke," predicted Princeton's Jed Graef, 22. Who might that be? "Me," said Graef, and hit the electronic touchboard in 2 min. 10.3 sec., barely edging Teammate Gary Dilley...