Word: muhammad
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...gold medal in the 1 ,500-meter run and a silver in the 800 meters. Fellow 1,500 Runner Kipkoech Cheruiyot of Kenya, however, failed to qualify for the semifinals. Neither, surprisingly, did the Indian field hockey team, which had previously won eight Olympic gold medals. Egyptian Discus Thrower Muhammad Neguib, injured in training, did not compete...
...beating Dallas." The great O.J. Simpson, 37, handed off to the great Michael Baily, 7, who has cerebral palsy. Lenore Nicholson-Woodward, 69, a bona fide "little old lady from Pasadena," almost overran the escort vehicles with her impatient heel-and-toe style. Back down the road in Louisville, Muhammad Ali had carried his torch too. In his book The Greatest...
...locale and the corkscrew stance both prompt riddles. Egypt's Muhammad Neguib, 32, did not pick up his first discus until he was 25, a good ten years older than most trainees. This seventh of ten children had played a ferocious game of volleyball until a professor of physical education noticed that the young man had the body of a discus thrower: long arms and legs, bulk (286 Ibs.) and strength (a chest circumference of 51 in.). These raw materials remain uncoached; Egypt, which has not had an Olympic medalist since 1960, spends little on developing its amateur athletes. Says...
...jumps, may serve to establish the precise lengths to which men can go. Gentler than a superman, more delicate than the common perception of a strong man, Lewis is physically the most advanced human being in the world, and about to become the most famous global sports figure since Muhammad...
...several of the Law School's leading activists, it is over, Robert W. Riggle, former Black Students Association President Muhammad I. Kenyatta, and former Council President Kent R. Markus, among others, will be leaving their old battlegrounds after Commencement...