Word: winner
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...throw. "Just because I didn't advance doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it," he said. Should some young U.S. hammer throwers be inspired, he will be pleased. "They need to learn how to compete," he said kindly. "A lot of them are marshmallows." The winner, Finland's Juha Tiainen, sighed, "It's not the same without the Eastern bloc countries." In the high jump, the celebrities were World Record Holder Zhu Jianhua of China and Dwight Stones of the U.S., but the winner was Dietmar Mögenburg of West Germany. He never...
Maybe because they had not collected any gold medals since 1968, U.S. women runners celebrated their victories most animatedly, fumbling with flags and even tumbling with coaches. None appeared more joyful than Valerie Brisco-Hooks, 24, now the only 200 and 400 double winner of any sex in all Olympic history, and the first American to win three gold medals in track and field since Wilma Rudolph's unprecedented triple in 1960. Two-and-a-half years ago, Brisco turned away from track to marry former N.F.L. Pass Catcher Alvin Hooks and have a son. Once Alvin Jr. grew...
Running, jumping or throwing, decathlete Daley Thompson was a winner...
...going to get you," the card said with the jocular pointedness that is Thompson's singular way. Last week, after the two days and ten events that test for the title of world's greatest athlete, Thompson, 26, the cheeky, irrepressible winner of the 1980 decathlon, had made good on his challenge. He did not make it look easy, but he managed to make it look like...
...Olympic boxing competition Saturday, fight fans could be forgiven for thinking that what they saw was more like a gloved version of the dismal science instead. Economics, not fisticuffs, was on everybody's mind. "After I get that gold medal, I'm turning pro," declared Lightweight Winner Pernell Whitaker, 20, before the tournament began. Boasted Flyweight Gold Medalist Steve McCrory, 20, younger brother of World Boxing Council Welterweight Champ Milton, after the semifinals: "I'm going to make this the richest division in boxing -$10 million in two years, and that's on commercials only...