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...journeying to Manhattan to appear in a cabaret. Born in Bohemia 23 years ago, the child was pronounced a girl, christened Zdenka Koubkova. She grew up as a sturdy, sport-loving maiden. She set Czechoslovak women's records in the broad jump, high jump, a half-dozen sprint and middle-distance runs; a women's world record for the 800-metre run in 1934. Few months ago she asked her provincial government to change her on the records from female to male. An operation was performed and onetime Zdenka Koubkova was pronounced a man. Although he still crosses...
...before the gun sounded for the start. While the murmur of the crowd gathered into a huge expectant roar, the field of twelve runners finished the first three laps with Ny leading, Cunningham second, Lovelock third. Then, still a good 300 metres from the finish, Lovelock began his amazing sprint. It carried him, a tiny light-footed figure in loose, black shirt and shorts, past the leaders and down the stretch in such a burst of speed that Cunningham, famed for his own finishing kick, was actually losing ground until Lovelock turned to glance casually at the field strung...
...cheated him of three yards, had not considered it worth calling to the attention of officials. Asked why he had looked back and slowed down at the finish, he said: "I didn't hear anyone so I thought I had better have a peek. . .. They thought I could sprint only about the last 70 metres and weren't prepared when I started my run. I think I could have sustained it for another 100 metres if necessary. ... I was a bit wound up, wasn...
...latest reports the Lindberghs had not yet banqueted with German bomber pilots but were enjoying themselves hugely. They visited Olympic Village, the Colonel taking a sprint around the running track, poking into every corner of the U. S. Olympic Team's quarters, pausing to watch some storks and laughing at the antics of the Australian team's mascot kangaroo...
Miserable or not, the tryouts at least set a record for swimming meets by producing no swimming records of any kind. Qualified for the Olympic team were 18 familiar sports-page figures, including Crooner Eleanor Holm Jarrett (back stroke); Katherine Rawls (freestyle sprint, springboard dive), Lenore Kight Wingard (400-metre free style...