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21-: inches, in October 1968, at Mexico Cits. The record
still stands although experts think Carl Lewis, the current
cinderpath comet, may break it before his career fades.
Beamon is 37 now and works as director of sports
development for Dade County Parks and Recreation in
Miami. Recalling his 1968 jump, he said he mereh
wanted to jump "as far as I could with little thought
about breaking a record."
Many observers contend that Beamon was lucky, since
he accomplished his jump in the "thin mountainous air
of Mexico City." But they overlook the fact that
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It also must be remembered that Beamon's mark was
two feet longer than the record set by Ralph Boston in
1965..Beamon was competing against Boston and Igor
Ter-Ovanesyan, a Soviet long jumper who had tied
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In 1932, when Los Angeles hosted the games, 127
women competed in 14 trac^ and field, fencing and sw imming
events. Since then, 13 more sports categories have
been added to broaden the scope of female participation.
In the span of time since the 1932 games, women, and
black women in particular, have provided outstanding
performances in all events they participated in.
The most dominant figure in women's competition
without a doubt has been Wilms Rudolph, who won
three gold medals in the 1960 games at Rome.
Wilma came out of Tennessee State University under
Coach Ed Temple, who was developing women runners
long before it became stylish for them to compete in big
meets. Wilma won gold medals in the 100 meters, 200
meters and 4xl00-meter relay.
Some of Tennessee State's other Olympic gold
medalists were Edith McGuire and Wyomia Tyrus.
McGuire won the 200 meters in Tokyo in 1964. Tyrus
won the 100-meter gold at Tokyo and also at Mexico City
in 1968.
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the injuries and missed time
would hurt my chances. But ;jlf\
the coaches gave me their kdV ?
votes and I appreciate it."
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now," he says. "I didn't I
want to miss any of the
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layoff helped me."
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farts, Russell said he feels
no pressure entering his
first league tournament.
"There is no added
pressure," he said. "Right
now I'm concentrating on
playing my best and winnNorthern
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winner Norfolk State and
St. Augustine's, which won
the Southern title, were the
only two schools to place
two players on the team. Joining
Pope from Norfolk
was freshman guard
Ralph Tally. The two St.
Augustine's players were
senior forward Anthony
Rogers and guard Randy
Franks. Franks was a teammate
of Russell's at Essex
County.
4Tt feels good to see Randy
on the team," said
Russell. says something
about the team and the <
coaching we had in junior
college."
Others making the team
were Fayetteville State's
William Person, St. Paul's
Charles Bell, North
Carolina Central's Charles
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Besides the previously mentioned gold medal winners, i
scores of others have made history as performers under
the American flag in the Olympics.
Howard P. Drew was a sprinter in the 1912 Olympics i
and a favorite to win the gold, but he never ran in the
finals. Drew was stricken with a leg injury after winning '
the semi-finals in the 100 meters. Although he suited up <
for the finals, he never ran because the injury was too
painful.
Perhaps the biggest hard luck story of the Olympics occurred
in Munich in 1972 when Ray Robinson and Eddie
Hart, then two of America's standout sprinters, were disqualified
because they failed to report at the starting post
on time for the second heat of the 100 meters.
Six Olympic gold medal w inners were honored last year
among the 20 charter members of the U.S. Olympic Hall
of Fame. The list was topped by Jesse Owens, winner of ,
four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics, and the lone
boxer was Cassius Clay, now known as Muhammad Ali,
who won the light-heavyweight title in Rome in 1960.
Others include Wilma Rudolph, winner of three gold
medals in the women's events in 1960; Rafer Johnson,
1960 decathlon champion; Bob Beamon, 1968 long jump
victor with a still-standing world record of 29 feet, 2Vi inches,
and Harrison Dillard, four-time gold medal winner
in sprints and hurdles in 1948 and 1952.
It should be remembered that coaching techniques are
imperceptibly altered as time goes on, making it impossible
for any clocking to remain unchallenged. Jesse
Owens, for example, was not permitted to use the
modern starting block. And he had to break the tape. But
today the dash man need only make contact with the
tape. Perhaps the Owens 9.4 of 1936 today would be a
9.1.
In the historic words of Baron deCouterteu, who is
considered the father of the Modern Olympics: "The important
thing in the Oly mpic Games is not winning, but
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This may have been fine when the Modern Games were
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and nations "go for the gold" because winners of gold
Olympic medals find gold -- real gold -- easier to obtain
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wins to catch him. "Everybody wants to talk about
what's happening,"^says Robinson. "But I just want to
enjoy these last six years (Louisiana has a mandatory
retirement age of 70; Robinson is 64) and have the best
time I can."...
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But the story of those who have excelled in the Olympics
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