Word: competitors
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Dope is hardly necessary. Today's competitor has no end of perfectly legal aids. His equipment has improved, with spectacular effects. The old hickory or ash vaulting poles have given way to bamboo, steel, aluminum and fiber glass, and with each change vaulters have soared ever higher, until the world record is now 17 ft. 61 in. - more than a foot and a half above Hamilton's "ultimate" limit. The foot ball has been narrowed and shortened twice since 1930 to make it easier to hold and throw; and each alteration in its shape has contributed...
Quietly and cautiously, the Spanish government set about looking for a partner-preferably a U.S. firm that could bring in both capital and technical know-how. In March 1965, bids were solicited from some 30 companies, including British, German and Japanese. Each competitor sought out representatives in Madrid with the best contacts and noblest titles that could be found...
Winning the pole is not winning the race, of course, and Andretti's toughest competitor on May 30 may well be Parnelli Jones, the 1963 champion, whose controversial new STP Special was the talk of Indy. Powered by a Pratt & Whitney aircraft turbine, the car has no clutch, only two "glow" plugs, can run on anything from kerosene to armagnac, gets twice as many miles per gallon as conventional Indy cars, and is practically soundless-emitting a sort of loud sigh as it ghosts around the track. Jones easily qualified the car at 166 m.p.h., and competitors cried foul...
Parker considers Gardiner "a savvy oarsman and a though competitor," and demonstrated his confidence in the Groton graduate by selecting him ahead of senior Clint Allen, the returning stroke from last year's boat...
...Valuable Player) and the fourth-highest money winner of all time when he collected $40,358. Last week at the Phoenix Jaycee Rodeo, he won $2,138 (plus a $750 jeweled belt buckle) to run his 1967 prizes to $17,262, a full $6,134 more than his closest competitor for All-Around honors and by far the highest amount ever won by any cowboy so early in the season...