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Here, for example, is Mark Telthorster, 32, a team handball goalie from Columbus, watching two women's teams play the violent and, in the U.S., wholly unappreciated game that has captured his imagination. A fast and not very subtle cross between basketball and soccer, it looks wrong to the basketball-educated eye, explains Telthorster, who hopes to coach the sport professionally, because you may take three full steps before and after dribbling. And, yes--here three or four bodies splat together and hit the floor--because very aggressive body checking is permitted. "Awright, way to deck her, Sandra!" yells...
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...
...certain. One possible question was Cram's occasionally tender left calf, which had been tweaking him after the Nice race. But in the final days before Oslo, the leg felt comfortable and strong, and Cram seemed unworried about any possible reinjury. His victory plan was a simple one: start fast and run Coe into the ground...
...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...
...long been just to choke up a little more. Soon he may be holding the bat by the wrong end. In the meantime he is wearing out the left-field rug with liners and pulling more than a few balls into right field. "I still have no trouble with fast balls," he says. "I still have my eyes and reflexes." He lightly notes his age and denies his infirmities...