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...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. Madeline Manning Jackson, a 1968 gold medalist, became at 28 the first American woman to do 800 meters in less than two minutes. Running "on the Lord's behalf," Salvation Army Worker Manning hopes to shave her time...
With the loss a 21-race winning streak also came to an end. Radcliffe's last defeat was three years ago, to Princeton. Since that date, the heavies had also won three consecutive Eastern sprint championships, defeating the Badgers in last year's final by open water...
...think everyone rowed as hard as they could. There was nothing that went horribly wrong. It just wasn't fast enough," said number three Alison Hill, a member of all three of Radcliffe's previous sprint-winning crews...
Third light boat oarsman Mark Anderson said yesterday that Andover jumped to an early lead but was quickly challenged by the third boat lights. Both of them were passed at the 500 meter mark by the heavies. "At the end of the race Andover put on a tremendous sprint, but we nuked them by half a length," he said...
...Crimson received no trouble from either crew as it increased its lead throughout the race. By the 1000 meter mark it was simply a question of how much rather than whom. A ragged sprint over the last 300 meters didn't help the J.V. cause much, but the final margin was still two lengths on its Charles River neighbors and a whomping 20 seconds over Dartmouth...