The Quick and the Dread

In the Rocky Mountain News
Published Sunday, August 22, 2004

ATHENS -- Runner after runner crossed the finish line and fell to his knees. One fell further and collapsed into a heap under the relentless Sacramento sun. More than one lost his lunch in a lurid display of exercise-induced nausea.

And all of them gratefully, if somewhat numbly, accepted the icy towels volunteers draped over their necks, shoulders and heads.

But it wasn't the heat alone that pulled these men down at the U.S. Track and Field trials last month. It was the distance. To read more...

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