Word: vaulter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What made Mike's disappearing and reappearing acts so dramatic was the fact that for a while he had to do them on crutches. A top-notch wrestler and pole vaulter, Mike recently had blown out one of his knees on a bad vault and had stitches in his knee from the surgery. It was easy to tell that Mike, the quintessential athlete, was getting impatient with the healing process, because whenever he had a few drinks, he went jogging, crutches...
...anyone seemed to have a lock on a gold medal this year, it was Soviet pole vaulter Sergei Bubka. He has virtually owned the event for the past four years, breaking the world record nine times and scoring ten of the 16 best jumps in the history of the sport. His real Olympic goal was not to beat the competition -- which seemed a foregone conclusion -- but to become the first man ever to soar over 20 ft., a threshold he had been flirting with all year...
...harshest blow for the Crimson squad came when pole vaulter Mike Short missed the vaulting pit and fell to the ground, fracturing his left elbow...
Sophomore pole vaulter Mike Short, in his second collegiate meet, set a new personal best and placed third by clearing 14 feet. Short's vault was a full foot better than he was able to vault a week...
Junior Jim O'Neill captured the individual epee fencing title yesterday at the NCAA Championship held in South Bend Ind. His first-place finish made him the first Harvard athlete to garner a national individual championship, since pole vaulter Geoff Stiles nabbed the gold...