U.S.A.: AMERICAN ATHLETES SWEEP FLOOR WITH SOVIET COUNTERPARTS IN FOURTH ANNUAL ATHLETIC MEET.
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U.S.A.: AMERICAN ATHLETES SWEEP FLOOR WITH SOVIET COUNTERPARTS IN FOURTH ANNUAL ATHLETIC MEET.
- Title: U.S.A.: AMERICAN ATHLETES SWEEP FLOOR WITH SOVIET COUNTERPARTS IN FOURTH ANNUAL ATHLETIC MEET.
- Date: 5th March 1975
- Summary: 1. Miss Larrieu winning mile (3 shots) 0.24 2. GV Spectators 0.27 3. SCU Miss Larrieu speaking 0.42 4. GV Women's 60-yard dash won by Angel Doyle 0.56 5. GV Rick Wolhuter wins 880 yards 1.10 6. GV & SV Irina Bonderchik wins women's 2-mile (3 shots) 1.18 7. GV Dwight Stones taking jump as spectators look on (2 shots) 1.18 8. SV Costello speaking 1.46 TRANSCRIPTS: (SEQ 3): LARIEU: "I've been used to flying into meet the day of the meet and running so I felt kind of lethargic, when I was warming up I really felt lazy. I wasn't sure exactly what I could do. Yet once I really got out there, I felt really good." COSTELLO: "Our team is doing extremely well, they're performing up to their ability and their ability is real good." "Miss Larrieu, running all alone for the first quarter of a mile, was timed in four-minutes-twenty-eight-and-five-tenths seconds, the fastest time in history for a woman either indoors or outdoors. It broke -- by half-a-second -- the record that twenty-two-year-old Miss Larrieu set two weeks ago in San Diego. She currently owns no less than five world records in distance from one-thousand metres to two miles and she said she came to Richmond bent on setting a new standard in the one-mile." "The American women outscored the Russian women seventy-three of forty-four. Sixteen-year-old Angel Doyle, a high-school junior from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, tied the meet record in winning the women's sixty yard dash in six-point-six seconds." "In all the U. S." won twenty-one of the twenty-six events. Sullivan Award winner Rick Wolhuter captured the men's eight-eighty in one-forty-nine-point-four with New Yorker Brian McElroy second. One of many one-two finishes in the running events for the U.S. "Russia finally got a win in the running events when Irina Bonderchik won the women's two-mile with Kay Keys of the U.S. second. "Twenty-one-year-old Dwight Stones...the world's best high jumper both indoors and out...won his speciality at seven-feet-three-inches. The University of Maryland's Frank Costello....head coach for the American squad...admitted this was not the strongest Russian team. But Costello said this was probably the best American team to take part in the four-year-old dual meet." Initials BB/2350 NC/AH/BB/0005 SPORT: ATHLETICS This film incudes interviews with Francis Larrieu and Frank Costello, the American team's coach. Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, U.S.A.
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- Country: USA
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