Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This summer Lawrence White is extending his business experience and hiking his savings as manager of a go-cart track near his family's home in Moorestown, New Jersey...
...runners dominated the track events, giving their foes double trouble. One was a horse: Cuba's 6-ft. 3-in., 185-lb. Alberto Juantorena. The other, a wraith: Finland's 5-ft. 11-in., 132-lb. Lasse Viren. Between them they not only took four gold medals, they wrote unprecedented achievements into the record book...
...Carlos Sousa Lopes for most of the grueling 10,000-meter final on Monday, Viren shot past him with a lap to go and then loped his light-footed way to a 30-meter lead at the finish line. As he ran a barefoot victory lap with his Tiger track shoes raised high above his head,* the 27-year-old policeman was paced by five ecstatic, flag-waving Finns who had hopped over a 6-ft. rail to join him. Four days later the distance was half as far, but the result was the same. In the last lap, Viren...
Viren seems to bring himself to peak form only for Olympic Games. His track achievements since Munich have been minimal, but he began hard training this spring, spending weeks in Kenya and South America, where he could find both warm weather and high altitude. Now he is a national hero once again. Headlined one paper: VIREN HAS COME IN FROM THE COLD...
...flawless routines in a trance of innocence. Olga Korbut turning into an instant Edith Piaf. Gymnast Shun Fujimoto's kamikaze dismount with a broken knee. The victory lap after the 400-meter hurdles when Gold Medal Winner Ed Moses and Silver Medalist Mike Shine loped round the track in joyous exhaustion. Weightlifter Vasili Alexeyev looking like the Buddha meditating over 561 I=lbs. of iron...