Word: swim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story began at the U.S. swim trials a month before, where John Moffet, accustomed to trailing home behind Veteran Steve Lundquist in the 100-meter breaststroke, not only beat the blond, gorgeously muscled Lunk, as Lundquist is called, but set a world record of 1:02.13. At the prelims on the first morning of Olympic competition, Moffet qualified fastest, in Olympic-record time. But four strokes into the second 50, he felt a muscle let go in his right thigh. Hours later, after a shot of Xylocaine, he swam the final in pain and managed a fifth place...
...eyes on every turn, so they said. One backstroker, the best in the world by nearly a second, sulked on the victory stand after winning a gold in the 200 meters. This was Rick Carey of the U.S., who had cockily promised a world record, and then failed to swim it by almost a second and a half, which is to say by a ton or so. On the way out of the stadium he did not wave at the crowd or acknowledge the cheers of his teammates. He got booed. Carey later issued a written apology to fans...
...have made much difference, give or take Soviet Distance Man Vladimir Salnikov. The East German women would have changed some results. But it was the 1980 boycott that had the most powerful effect on these '84 Games. Sixteen members of the present team had been set to swim in Moscow, and most of them would not still be around had they done so. Tracy Caulkins was a team star as long ago as the world championships of 1978, when she won five golds; now it was grand to see her, at 21, glide majestically through the 400-meter individual...
Nineteen-year-old veterans are not the wave of the future, however. The mind of the swimming buff turns, in a pleasurable way, to the woman-no, let's say it, girl-who beat Meagher in the Olympic trials. She is Jenna Johnson, 16, a willowy, 6-ft. ½-in. redhead who is a junior from La Habra, Calif. Here in the 100 fly she charged out ahead of world-record pace-Meagher's record-and turned ahead of Mary T. "Oh please, oh please," said Meagher aloud as she ground away with 25 meters...
...king and country, his eyes are put out. Images of his victims appear before the blinded General; frightened, the asylum's inmates kill him, while ghosts of the liberated dead sing a hymn to the revolution: "We stand by the river./ If the water is deep we will swim./ If it is too fast we will build boats./ We will stand on the other side./ We have learned to march so well/ That we cannot drown...