Word: tendons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...record had stood unapproachably majestic for 23 years, a distance of 29 ft. 2 1/2 in., about the length of a medium-size truck, easily traversed by a motorcycle daredevil propelled off a ramp -- but not by unaided tendon, sinew, flesh and blood. Only a few dared to challenge the long-jump record -- the oldest and most awesome in track and field -- set in 1968 when the American Bob Beamon flung himself through the thin Olympic air of high-altitude Mexico City, spanning a gap no man had crossed before...
Injuries have continued to haunt Jones. Last Christmas break, she tore a tendon in her knee. She failed to qualify for nationals in cross country and would not don a Crimson jersey again, constantly aggravating the injury during spring workouts. But Jones does not feel these injuries signal the end of her running career...
...White has been scraped off the Fitton Field turf and is ready to lead the Multiflex, but a host of injuries in the trenches have left Restic concerned about the history that will be made today. Right guard Mike Zweber should return to the lineup despite a pulled Achilles tendon, but his sidekick at right tackle, Captain Tom Callahan, is not expected to play...
...Achilles tendon hurt me from the beginning," Hussein said, "and halfway up the hill [Heartbreak Hill], I thought I heard it snap...