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During a predawn card game with a guard in his Dallas County jail cell, Ruby asked for a glass of water and, when left alone, charged headfirst into a plaster cell wall. He suffered only a two-inch cut and a knot on his skull; moments later, guards found him trying to rip his white jail uniform into strips - presumably to fashion a noose...
Other Russians did nearly as well. Going all out to win the men's 1,500 meters, Speed Skater Ants Antson, 25, hurled himself bodily across the finish line-and slid headfirst into a snowbank. Claudia Boyarskikh, 24, a sturdy Siberian schoolteacher, led a 1-2-3 sweep in the grueling women's 10,000-meter cross-country ski race, also won the 5,000 meters, collected still a third gold medal as anchor woman on the victorious 15-kilometer relay team. Vladimir Melanin, described as "a 30-year-old student," coolly plinked 20 straight bull...
...Headfirst, back arched, belly towards the Greeks-who laughed-The tab ends of his metal kilt dangling across his chest...
...elsewhere. Last year in Scotland, she fractured a kneecap. In Wales, Jill suffered through a series of bizarre misfortunes. Stuck in a deep bog, she had to drag her 3OO-lb. cycle out of the mud. When her bike hit a bad bump, Jill plunged over the handlebars, landed headfirst in a rabbit hole. "I was stuck so fast," she says, "that I had to undo my helmet to get my head out.'' Battered, mud-spattered, running a fever, Jill doggedly refused to quit...
...world record, oldest on the books. No fewer than 13 pole vaulters scaled 15 ft. California Schoolboy Ulis Williams, 19, chased Veteran Olympic Champion Otis Davis, 28, to the wire in the 440, finished only 0.2 sec. behind him. An unorthodox upstart from Southern California, Bob Avant, dived headfirst over the high-jump bar, somersaulted onto his back with a crunching thud after clearing 7 ft. to beat Boston University's John Thomas. Loose-limbed Ralph Boston of Tennessee State landed only ¼ in. shy of his third 27-ft. broad jump, and three men heaved...