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...national A.A.U. track and field championships in San Diego, where the team to meet the U.S.S.R. at Kiev this month was chosen. Proving that his astonishing 10,000-meter victory in the Olympics was no fluke, Mills held off a strong challenge from Washington State's Gerry Lindgren, 19, who matched him stride for stride through a bristling 58 sec. final quarter-mile before Mills breasted the tape barely inches ahead. Timers called it a dead heat, and both will get the record, join other winners at Kiev. Among them: Kansas Schoolboy Jim Ryun, 18, whose...
...Mills even bothered to show up. A half Sioux Indian from South Dakota, he was only a so-so runner at the University of Kansas, failed to make the U.S. team in the 5,000 meters, won a trip to Tokyo when he finished a distant second behind Gerry Lindgren in the 10,000. But he could do one thing: he could sprint pretty well in the final lap. "I'm going to win this thing if I have anything left at the end," he told his wife after clipping off a 23.8-sec. 200 meters in practice...
...best time for 10,000 meters was 29 min. 10.4 sec., nearly a minute slower than Australian Ron Clarke's world record. And for half the race, there was Clarke striding rhythmically, effortlessly around the track, burning out his challengers. With a badly twisted ankle, Gerry Lindgren was struggling just to finish, and the crowd in National Stadium waited patiently for Clarke to shake the other also-rans: Tunisia's little Mohamed Gamoudi, Ethiopia's Mamo Wolde-and Billy Mills. But on and on they went, matching stride for stride, lapping stragglers, jockeying for position. Clarke...
Jones, who had lost out in two previous bids for an Olympic gold medal, just beat Blaine Lindgren at the tape in 13.6 seconds with Antonin Mikhailov of the USSR third. Aggrey Awori '65, competing for Uganda, was beaten in the quarter finals Saturday...
...Gerry Lindgren, the 13-year-old who beat Mills at the U.S. Olympic trials in August, finished ninth despite an ankle sprain suffered in a workout Monday. Pyotr Bolotnikov of the USSR, defending champion in the event, finished...