Word: swimming
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...some future Olympics, other athletes would swim faster, jump higher, throw farther; and some day it might not matter any longer that the U.S. had beaten Russia in their private battle for supremacy in the Games (see box). But the memories would stay -of Bob Schul sprinting across the finish line in the 5,000-meter run, the first American ever to win the race, soaked with rain, plastered with mud, a look of utter rapture on his upturned face. Of Russia's Elvira Ozolina, crushed by her defeat in the women's javelin, rushing wildly into...
Three days before he was due to swim in the 400-meter individual medley (butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle), California's Dick Roth, 17, was stricken with an appendicitis attack. Rushed to a hospital, he was fed intravenously, packed in ice. Roth refused medication: "If it has to come out, O.K.," he said, "but if it doesn't, I don't want to be punchy for the race." Then he went out and chopped 3.1 sec. off his own world record...
...Real Thrill. Nobody demonstrated U.S. superiority better than Oregon's Don Schollander, who has been training for the Olympics five hours a day every day for eight of his 18 years. "The greatest sensation in swimming," he says, "is the pain you have to swim through. But the real thrill is winning-and winning big." Last week Don was looking for all the thrills he could find. In the 100-meter freestyle he left France's World Record Holder Alain Gottvallès far behind to set a 53.4-sec. Olympic record. "I had nothing left...
Lazing beside the Westerhazys' green pool one Sunday afternoon, Neddy Merrill decides to swim home. It pleases him to imagine that his neighbors' swimming pools form the course of a broad river winding through fertile fields to the grounds of his own fine house. He names the river after his wife Lucinda and sets out at a choppy crawl. At the Grahams' he is given a drink, and at the Bunkers', where a pool party is going on, he gets another. "Oh, how bonny and lush were the banks of the Lucinda River! Prosperous...
...Yalie accounted for the only U.S. gold medal of the day. Don Schollander, who will arrive at New Haven this winter, turned in a 53.4 to win the 100-meters freestyle swim. Cary Ilman was fourth and last year's Yale captain, Mike Austin, sixth...