Word: shot-put
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...Heaving a 16-lb. metal ball farther than anyone else in the world takes prodigious strength. It also takes grace, balance and technique. Parry O'Brien was a shot-put champion whose great innovation was a 180º spin that built momentum for his toss. He broke the shot-put world record 17 times between 1953 and 1959 and in four Olympic Games took home two gold medals plus a silver. O'Brien, 75, had a fatal heart attack while competing in a Santa Clarita, Calif., swim meet...
DIED. Herman Brix, 100, Olympic shot-put medalist turned Hollywood actor, best known for playing the lead in 1935's The New Adventures of Tarzan; in Los Angeles. Brix was not the most famous Tarzan--an injury forced him to cede that role to Johnny Weissmuller-- but he was the favorite of Tarzan writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. Later, as Bruce Bennett, his stage name, he appeared in such acclaimed films of the 1940s as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, with Humphrey Bogart, and the Joan Crawford classic Mildred Pierce...
Another bright spot on Harvard’s lineup was captain Kristoffer Hinson. His 16.4-meter effort in the shot-put competition put him in second place, beating the third-place competitor, Dartmouth’s Robert Kerris by a hundredth of a meter. Junior Christopher Ware placed sixth in the same competition with a 15.34-meter shot...
...Crimson took first and second in shot-put thanks to captain Kristoffer Hinson’s winning toss of 16.25 meters and junior Chris Ware’s throw of 15.50 meters...
...BALCO didn't make the trip to Greece. Sure, Marion Jones was in Athens, but she came home without a medal. And plenty of track athletes cheated - Greece's two big-name sprinters failed to show up for a drug test, while the Russian winner of the women's shot-put and the Hungarian gold medalist in the men's discus event lost their medals after drug tests. But the Americans escaped unscathed. "The sport was going to remain under a dark cloud until we did phenomenal things," says long-jump champ Dwight Phillips, who as a teenager broke both...