DAY 13: THURSDAY, AUGUST 9th 245

Daley Thompson in the discus (6th), pole vault (2nd), javelin (6th).

In the javelin, the ninth test of the decathlon, Daley Thompson's first and DECATHLON best throw traveled 214 feet, surpassing Juergen Hingsen's best by almost 16 feet. Thompson's lead, 209 points, barring physical collapse, was insur- mountable. Thompson was 130 points ahead of his own previous best score and 104 ahead of Hingsen's pace the day Hingsen set the world record.

The First Family of American , the Lewis family, suffered its TRACK AND first Olympic setback in the women's long jump. , among the favorites, failed to qualify in the final, no American earned a medal and the FIELD gold went to a beaming Anisoara Stanciu, a member of the First Family of Romanian track and field. She had recently married the Romanian 100- meter dash champion. The men of the Hooks family, Alvin Sr. and Jr., once again celebrated Mother's Day, Valerie Brisco-Hooks winning the 200-meter dash and, just as she had at 400 meters, setting an American and Olympic record. No man or woman had ever before won both the Olympic 200 and 400, and with her spot secure on the favored American team in the 1,600-meter relay, 24-year-old Valerie Brisco-Hooks seemed likely to earn another place in history, to become only the second American woman to win three gold medals in track and field. Wilma Rudolph was the first, 24 years earlier. Among the men, in the heats of the 1,500, traditionally a glamour event, Jose Absacal of Spain ran the fastest time, Americans Steve Scott and qualified for the semifinals and so did Britain's three stars, Steve