Word: sprinter
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...cookies for lunch," she recalled last week. But after a year and a half in dry dock, she returned. "I hadn't finished my career the way I wanted to," she said. She had been a butterfly and individual-medley specialist, but she turned herself into a freestyle sprinter. Hogshead was prepared for this race: all 20 nails were painted...
...track's athletic circus, only he makes everything else come to a stop. His body is hard, like mahogany, but carved in unusually clear detail, including ropelike muscular definition. He is full-faced, rather babyfaced, but otherwise trim: 6 ft. 2 in., 173 Ibs. As a 100-meter sprinter, Lewis has registered the third-fastest time ever, 9.97 sec. In the 200 he is the second-fastest man in history and gaining. He holds the long-jump record indoors. Among the ten best jumps outdoors, nine are his. And he is far from finished. "There are going to be some...
Bill and Evelyn Lewis met at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute: he was a sprinter, she a hurdler, both of them long jumpers. Evelyn, especially, loved floating in free flight. With slim legs tucked tightly under her in the fashion of the day, she sailed over 19 ft. at college and was bound for the Helsinki Games in 1952 until a hurdle injury interfered. Evelyn had to stop competing at 20, and all these years later, some incomplete feelings linger. There are no spectators in the Lewis family, but the varied athletic directions of the children suggest a reasonable tolerance...
...track-and-field team was determined last week in a stirring celebration of more than Carl Lewis, but Lewis most of all. Before a man can win four gold medals, he must qualify in four events, and Lewis did this with a flourish, though without posting any records. Fragile Sprinter Evelyn Ashford's gold-medal ambitions declined from three to two. Hurdlers Edwin Moses and Greg Foster rejoiced. Mary Decker found out she could run only as far as the law would allow. And a wound-up Methuselah named Ed Burke took a 16-lb. ball by the chain...
...amazing machine and that the mind and its awareness are such important things. This is the closest I've seen him come to being perfect. He's on the edge of something phenomenal in all of his events." Said Lewis: "I was always relaxed as a sprinter, but I didn't understand it. Coach Tellez taught me the importance of relaxation in competition. It's realizing when you hit full speed that you only have to maintain...