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...looks like a health-club regular. "We are completely aware that 70% of men's clothing decisions are made by females," says Uwe. The company also has recruited such top athletes as Björn Borg, the five-time Wimbledon tennis champion, and Jürgen Hingsen, the world-record holder and Olympic silver medalist in the decathlon, to wear the Boss line...
...what he had to do. His 6 ft. 11 ½ in. was well above Thompson's jump, and he closed the gap somewhat. Thompson cruised to a 5-meter win in the 400 meters and led Hingsen after the first day by 114 points, well ahead of world-record pace...
...meter breaststroke, not only beat the blond, gorgeously muscled Lunk, as Lundquist is called, but set a world record of 1:02.13. At the prelims on the first morning of Olympic competition, Moffet qualified fastest, in Olympic-record time. But four strokes into the second 50, he felt a muscle let go in his right thigh. Hours later, after a shot of Xylocaine, he swam the final in pain and managed a fifth place on arm power and guts. Lundquist finished in new world-record time and then comforted Moffet. That was to be expected; Lundquist...
This was the meet's highest drama, although U.S. men's relay teams also won their remaining races in world-record times. Swimmers continued to file in, full of resolve or resignation, and to fill the panic time before their races by ritualistically kneeling to splash water on their faces, and then slowly peeling off many layers of sweat clothes. Most of the men were powerfully built and conventionally handsome, and most of the women were spectacularly graceful. A brass band played busily for their entrances and exits, and the sun shone on them through a sky that...
...pleasurable way, to the woman-no, let's say it, girl-who beat Meagher in the Olympic trials. She is Jenna Johnson, 16, a willowy, 6-ft. ½-in. redhead who is a junior from La Habra, Calif. Here in the 100 fly she charged out ahead of world-record pace-Meagher's record-and turned ahead of Mary T. "Oh please, oh please," said Meagher aloud as she ground away with 25 meters to go. "Oh no, here she comes," thought Johnson. As she admitted later, "I didn't have anything left." Not true...