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...Decker's Olympic epitaph is the saddest one, that she never had the chance to succeed or fail. Without challenge, almost invisibly, formidable Rumanian Maricica Puica finished the ill-starred race with her yellow hair flying. It was the Games' inaugural 3,000-meter run for women, another piece to the creeping acknowledgment of their athletic competence. Puica looked eminently competent, and not being able to see her hooked up with Decker in the stretch was a sore loss. In 1972 Decker was just starting out as little Mary, 14, not yet contrary, who ran so extremely hard...
Stirred by Benita Fitzgerald-Brown's victory in the women's 100-meter hurdles, the audience was ready for a main event, but unprepared for a drama deeper than a race. The pack holds no attraction for either Decker, 26, or Budd, 18, front runners in every sense. They would naturally fight for the lead, where they could ignore the jostling and bumping behind them. A half-stride ahead on the outside at the 1600-meter mark and in tight quarters with Decker, Zola was knocked first abobble and then akimbo (see box). Decker, meanwhile, could not have...
Immediately, Referee Andy Bakjian, an American, ruled that she was disqualified, but the British appealed to an eight-member board, which swiftly reinstated her. After studying numerous television replays and discussing every known rule of track etiquette, nobody except Decker seemed absolutely sure there was a foul, let alone who committed it. Cornelia Buerki of Switzerland, also South African-born, had a respectable view from the back of the pack. "I would say it was Mary's fault," she said. "She was trying to pass Budd on the inside and spiked Zola's Achilles. Zola couldn...
...that it can be any consolation to her, but Decker never looked so attractively human. Her running expression is either vinegary or no expression at all, and there has always been an edge to her that seemed chilling. Trying to leave the field under her own power, crying as hard as she ever ran, Decker faltered before reaching the tunnel and was lifted up into Fiance Richard Slaney's arms. He is a discus thrower on the British team, and they are massive arms. Set down on a small flight of steps in the tunnel, she accepted condolences from...
...early April she again had to "walk out of a run." This time Benoit was referred to Orthopedic Surgeon Stan James, in Eugene, Ore., whose roster of patients with knee problems reads like a Who 's Who of running: Jim Ryun, Frank Shorter, Joaquim Cruz and Mary Decker. James first prescribed drug and physical therapy. Six days later, on April 23, a depressed Benoit was back in James' office; that morning the pain in her knee had forced her to pull up three miles into a run. James presented her with two options: she could stop training altogether...