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...laurels only. Last week, for the first time in the 90-year history of the Boston Marathon, cash as well as glory was waiting 26 miles and 385 yds. from the starting line. The winner of the $30,000 purse and new Mercedes was Australian Rob De Castella, who finished fifth in the 1984 Olympics and had not won a race since 1983. Reading split times scribbled on the back of his hand to pace himself during his first attack on the prestigious course, De Castella, 29, led the crowd of 4,750 runners for all but two miles, finishing...
...city of 450,000, built at the apex of a deep harbor, creeps up the precipitous mountainsides. Its atmosphere reflects a myriad of influences. Chinese temples share streets with grocery markets. The aroma of fresh-baked Portuguese castella cakes wafts out of bakeries standing amid sake bars decorated with red lanterns. Victorian-style European buildings have been preserved at Glover Gardens, a well-tended hilltop refuge named for Scotsman Thomas Glover who made his fortune in shipbuilding in Japan in the late 1800s. According to local lore, Glover's home inspired the setting for Puccini's Madame Butterfly...
...Just before Cathy's 400-m race, I was getting a bite and I bumped into Rob de Castella, the great Aussie marathoner from a few years back. I reminded him that we ran the Boston Marathon together once. He said he'd forgotten that, and I said this was understandable since he'd beaten me by an hour and 46 minutes...
...That was the thing about this race: No one was running away from what it meant. No Aussie, not Cathy herself. What pressure! The last thing I said to de Castella was, "Well, it's certainly a big night...
...galvanized by the spirit of the Games. Passing through 11,000 hands during the torch relay's 100-day, 27,000-km journey, the Olympic flame has brought Australia into closer touch with itself. The relay "symbolizes everything that's good about the Games," former marathon champion Robert de Castella has said. "Somehow it's been able to capture the balance between the grass roots and the elite side of the Olympics." In a chain of simple gestures, the Olympic ideal was made tangible...