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...that we have reached this refreshing pause, why can't some other deplorable changes in our lives be undone? Or, rather, why can't we make some changes in a different direction? If they can bring back the old Coke, why can't they bring back the double-decker bus? And strawberries that have a taste? Not to mention chickens and tomatoes and potatoes? And milk that still has the cream on top, so that you can whip it and slather it over the tasty strawberries...
...last time the world paid any special heed to Mary Decker and Zola Budd, the two women were leaving Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, both in obvious emotional pain, both hounded by the press, both with tears streaking their faces. Halfway through the Olympic 3,000-meter final, Budd, the barefoot sensation from South Africa, went a half-stride ahead and cut in slightly on Decker, the U.S. champion competing in her first Games. In one heart-stopping instant, Decker got tangled up in Budd's feet and crashed. As she cried out with the pain of a torn muscle...
...appear), the entire schedule of the Peugeot-Talbot Games was rejiggered so that the confrontation could be seen live on American TV. For those who wondered how the Olympic race would have turned out, last Saturday's race seemed for its first half an eerie replay. Slaney (Decker married British Discus Thrower Richard Slaney on New Year's Day) took the lead from the start, as she likes to do. Budd, now 19, still barefoot and 10 lbs. heavier than in Los Angeles, remained close behind in second, often just a nerve-racking whisper away from Slaney's shoulder...
...race climaxed a year of hurt, bitterness and self-examination for both runners. Immediately after their Los Angeles mishap, Budd had approached Decker, her childhood idol, to apologize, but the frustrated U.S. star dismissed her with a curt "Don't bother." For Budd, the waiflike wonder whose shoeless style and record-smashing times had drawn worldwide attention in the months before the Summer Games, the accident was a traumatic blow to an already turbulent career. She had come under fire for obtaining last-minute British citizenship in order to race in the Olympics and evade the antiapartheid ban on South...
...Olympic accident had been anequally crushing blow to Decker, who missed the 1976 Olympics because of an injury and the 1980 Games because of the U.S. boycott. Her snappish treatment of Budd and "bad loser" TV interviews cost her public sympathy and probably a good deal of money in endorsement contracts. But during five months of recuperation and renewed training, she refueled her competitive fires. In January, in her first race after the Olympics, Slaney set a new world's indoor record for the women's 2,000 (5:34.52), and she turned in several other impressive performances this year...