Word: sprints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain's pace-setting Mike Blagrove led the field into the first lap on the dead sprint. In third place was Ibbotson, his chest stuck out like a bantam cock's, his legs and arms weaving perfect circles, running like a mechanical toy. The time for the first quarter-mile: 0:55.3, just 9.5 sec. slower than the world record. "When I heard that time," said Ibbotson later, "I felt sick." At the half-mile mark. the time was a phenomenal 1:55.8. Then Blagrove faded. When the bell clanged at the start of the final quarter-mile...
...Russia's Yuri Stepanov could not achieve enough altitude to win a place on his nation's Olympic high-jumping squad. But last week, at a Leningrad meet, he took his usual short sprint toward the bar, flung himself skywards and crashed into the landing pit with a new world record...
...have run his race for him." So when Wheatley Stable's dark bay colt went to the post at Pimlico for the 81st running of the Preakness, Eddie went along just for the ride. He let Bold Ruler break for the lead, thought nothing of scrapping with sprint star Federal Hill all down the backstretch, worried only when his mount began to loaf after leading the pack past the turn for home. When Iron Liege made his move, Eddie took to the whip, and Bold Ruler went back to work. He was still pulling away when...
...Lake. But Yale's two feet of lead seemed too much for the Big Red to erase. Then, ten strokes from the finish, Cornell's all-senior eight found strength for a final spurt. Their shell slid across the line inches in front to win the heavyweight sprint championships of the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges...
While the heavies had a disappointing day the lightweight races were ones of utter frustration for the Crimson. As was the case last week on the Charles, the varsity's sprint fell short by the smallest of margins as the Tigers once again hung on to win the title. The JV race was actually declared a dead heat but the referee later decided for Navy...