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Moreover, Bislett Stadium was exactly where Cram wanted to be. "If you can't run well at Bislett, you're not running well anywhere," Cram said to reporters. "You know you're going to run fast whenever you come here." And he added later, "The atmosphere is electric ... it lifts you up." Most world-class runners agree. In the long Norse summer evenings, the air at Bislett is still and cool, so that neither wind nor heat oppresses the competitors. And the frequent rain showers leave a quickening aura of freshness, almost as if there were more oxygen...
...hometown aficionados to a 10,000-meter time of 30:59.42, a vast 14.36 sec. better than the old record. Next, Morocco's Said Aouita just out-dueled the U.S.'s Sydney Maree, shaving .01 sec. off the 5,000-meter record with his 13:00.40. Finally, Cram and Coe, 28, came onstage with eleven others for the classic confrontation to determine who would reign among the world's milers. Many experts, including Cram in his quiet, pleasant way, felt that the outcome was virtually certain. One possible question was Cram's occasionally tender left calf, which had been tweaking...
...broke smoothly and whirled through the first two laps in perfect position just behind the early leaders with Coe right on Cram's back. Coe stayed with his younger rival through the third lap, and for a moment, at the bell for the final lap, Coe seemed to be gaining. But then Cram, whose shock of curly blond hair, perfect legs and finely sculpted features give him the look of a Greek demigod, began to turn up the burners, rolling faster and faster with no apparent strain. As the field stretched out in the last lap, he was simply flying...
...running as fast as I was," Coe said later to the London Daily Mail, "and there's this guy ahead so relaxed he can look behind, you know you're in trouble." When the time went up, Cram had broken Coe's record by a full 1.02 sec. in an awesome 3:46.31. Awesome to all but Cram apparently. "With a better third lap I could have done 3:45," he told reporters. Hubris? Just a true hero's Olympian standards. "If I feel that I can't improve on my form," Cram said, "then I will pack...
...first blush, this assertion seems to drop conventional wisdom on its head. Everyone knows that the novel is literature's great grab bag, shapeless enough to accommodate nearly everything a writer wants to cram into it. Short stories allow little wasted motion. But Narayan, 78, turns out to be a perfectly accurate commentator on his own methods. Under the Banyan Tree and Other Stories, while shorter than most novels, is a riotous mosaic of small details in which nothing, finally, seems irrelevant...