Word: shotputting
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...shotput, another powerful American will be missing, but not by choice. Randy Matson, gold medalist in 1968, was nudged off the U.S. team by George Woods, Al Feuerbach and Brian Oldfield. Feuerbach, who has hair like Samson's and a mustache like Fu Manchu's, releases the shot with a banzai-type yell. Oldfield competed at the U.S. trials in a brief, floral-patterned swimsuit and a low-cut fishnet jersey. If these Americans fail to stir the Munich stadium crowds, West German Uwe Beyer almost certainly will. After winning the bronze medal in the hammer throw...
...reaches a maximum if she conquers a West German. An Olympic Games gold medal, depending on the sport category, may earn an East German athlete between 20,000 and 50,000 marks ($6,250 to $15,600). One reward for Margitta Gummel, who won the women's shotput event in Mexico, was a $5,600 red Wartburg automobile. . It came complete with a license plate numbered SC 1961-SC for sports club and 1961 for her winning distance of 19.61 meters...
...Track coverage at Dartmouth is much simpler. The Daily Dartmouth has had several "this is your life" stories on weightmen Bill Diuneen (hammer), Wayne Moody (shotput), and Ted Moody (shotput). Not that the Dartmouth is that aggressive in its track coverage. So far this spring it has found less than half a dozen other track members worth mentioning...
...Crimson weightmen should be challenged by Dartmouth's trio. Dineen was an NCAA meet finalist in the hammer last year as a junior. Ted Moody holds the Indians' shotput record, but younger brother Wayne, only a sophomore, passed his brother in competition this winter...
...good enough for 959 points under the complicated decathlon scoring system.* Then, a soaring 25-ft. 9¾-in. long jump, best of Toomey's career, gave him another 994 points and kept him in the lead. After that, a poor 45-ft. Hin. shotput ("That really depressed me") and a disappointing 6-ft. 4¾-in. high jump dropped him to second behind East Germany's Joachim Kirst. Next came the grinding 400-meter run, and after ten straight hours of competition, Toomey somehow managed to sprint the distance in 45.6 sec. It was the fastest time...