Word: taekwondoist
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Dates: during 1988-1988
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...savors the long blue benches of Changch'ung gymnasium, where the scoreboard announces that D. Hee is the winner of what it calls the "Light Women" taekwondo division. And he is among the earliest to know that the first American winner in the 1988 Games was a personable young taekwondoist from Chicago called Arlene Limas. When Arlene mounted the stand and waited for the first playing of The Star-Spangled Banner, however, there was only silence. Then more silence. At last, as the uneasy quiet dragged on, a few of the friends who had come all the way from Illinois...
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