Word: stadium
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Jackie Joyner-Kersee was jumping for joy. After copping the heptathlon gold, she returned last week to her first love, the long jump. But the wind in the Olympic stadium was tricky, and she trailed Heike Drechsler of East Germany for most of the competition. "I kept feeding myself positive information," she remarked afterward. "I kept saying, 'You can do it, you can do it.' " Indeed she could. On the fifth jump, Joyner-Kersee soared 24 ft. 3 1/2 in., the second best performance of her career. When it was clear that she had won, husband and coach Bob Kersee...
...ugliest story of the 22nd Olympics began in a bathroom in the basement of Seoul's track-and-field stadium. There, on Sept. 24, a smallish man with a fabulously muscled body and rage-filled eyes had to perform the indignity of champions. A master of explosive, almost inexplicable starts, he had already propelled his body down the 100-meter track faster than anyone before. Now his legs had ceased churning, he had relinquished the flag of his adopted Canada, which he had waved around the stadium, and the applause for the seemingly guileless sprinter who had dethroned...
Defensive Line: Middle guard Greg Gicewicz had the game of his life against Holy Cross. He grabbed an interception and rumbled 48 yards before being draged down. The whole stadium trembled. Don Peterson, the team's captain and defensive end, always gives a good effort. Tackles Jim Bell and Rich Puccio are fine runstoppers...
Intangibles: The Big Red usually plays on artificial turf. The grass of The Stadium should work in Harvard's favor, particularly if the weather is bad. Cornell is 0-1 in the league. Another loss and the Big Red is finished. Cornell is 20-30-2 against the Crimson. The biggest loss was in 1890 when the Red fell...
Gooden remained unbeaten at Dodger Stadium. He entered the game with a 4-0 record in six starts at Los Angeles, having allowed two earned runs in 53 innings for a 0.34 earned-run average...