SGMW wrote, of Monday's results: >> Not one medal and not many qualifiers. All in all, >> one of the worst days in the history of American >> track and field.
I'm reminded, but only vaguely, of another day then described as one of the worst in American track and field history. If I have any of it right, it was at the 1960 Rome Olympics and began with world record claimant Bill Alley failing to qualify in the javelin, although the event was won at a distance 12' below Alley's seasonal best and eighth-place was fully 40' short of his prospective world record. I can't remember the other catastrophes of that "darkest day." Could someone with a better memory (or a longer bookshelf) remind us of what they were?
