Word: winner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brought the Soviet Union its first of two golds. The U.S. bagged six, the same as Munich and down six from the halcyon days of Mexico City. Which made it fitting that, with two weeks of successes behind them, an East German enjoyed the Olympics' last lap. Marathon Winner Waldemar Cierpinski circled the Stadium in splendid isolation, well ahead of favored Frank Shorter...
...Fred Newhouse of the U.S. who watched helplessly as Juantorena burst past him in the last 20 meters. "He ain't God," said Newhouse, "but he's good." "He's what the future of running is going to be," said Mai Whitfield, gold medal winner in the 800 for the U.S. in 1948 and 1952. "He had no respect for nobody. He just went out there and started smoking...
...unsettling-one at the Games. "America expects its athletes to wave a flag and win a medal every four years," complained Discus Champion Mac ("Wolfman") Wilkins. "But then you're supposed to take off that silly underwear and go out and make a decent living." Long-Jump Winner Arnie Robinson, whose wife Cynthia held down two jobs so that he could devote the past three years to training, warned, "There will be some big surprises in 1980, when we win even less than we did this year." Urging Government subsidies of $10,000 a year for top U.S. amateurs...
...superb pictures of the events themselves. Nadia Comaneci performing her 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...
...seemed so effortless that it was easy to forget she was not merely doing what comes naturally. Although her debut in senior international competition came only last year, when she leaped out of Rumanian obscurity to take the European Championship away from the Soviet Union's five-time winner, Ludmilla Turishcheva, 23, Nadia had been preparing for last week's moment of golden triumph for more than half her life...