Word: trackman
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...ironed shirt gleams white against sun-beaten skin. "I worked construction all my life, and it's rough," says Seiter. "This is a rough sport, and I like it." Karen Stoffel, a secretary with a finance company, is there too. She has come with her husband Gary, a trackman for the Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fe Railway, and their daughter Courtney, 6. A heavyset woman with round, cheerful cheeks, Mrs. Stoffel says, "Wrestling is a release from day after day of working. You come here and yell and scream and yell and scream and then go home. My daughter...
...kind of gunplay is a serious matter at the Olympics, where a Paraguayan trackman put up such a scuffle over a starter's pistol he had been waving around recklessly that he spiked a policeman and was charged with battery. At a city hall ceremony belatedly honoring the eleven Israeli athletes murdered in 1972 (unattended by the International Olympic Committee), weapon-bearing officers were posted on the rooftop. Wherever Israel's team travels in one of the Games' old yellow school buses, a wedge of police motorcycles and cars clear...
...intense hammer throw event, trackman Tom Lenz grabbed third with a splendid toss...
...junior trackman did not jump at all this week in practice because of a mild case of tendonitis in one knee...
Fantastic fields such as these, however, are nothing new to the Penn Relays contests. The showcase carnival has always pulled in the best runners around. But what makes them come every year? The Penn Relays have always been some sort of dream for all runners. Every trackman always has the same image in mind of coming around that 330 yd. mark, with the baton in hand, listening to those 50,000 fans cheer him on. It's this one moment of glory that keeps the good runners coming in year after year, and will keep them coming as long...