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...fall in love when they meet during a downswing in Chris's career. As the women fight and make love with a cool intensity rarely captured on film. Chris (the younger of the two) breaks out of her slump and comes into her own as a runner and hurdler. She even joins Tory's team, after the established track star pleads with her coach to give Chris a chance...
Even foreigners who are not so surprised upon their arrival in the U.S. comment on the clear differences between athletic programs here and abroad. Hurdler Steve Ezeji-Okoye expected, and found, much more lavish and modern track facilities here than if he had gone to college in England. "That's the reputation the United States has abroad," he says...
...surprise since the cast blends amateurs and professionals in the leading roles. Perhaps the simplest thing to say about them is that they all meet somewhere in the middle, at an agreeable semipro level. Hemingway has retained the sweet artlessness of her Manhattan days, while Donnelly, a sometime Olympic hurdler, makes something pleasantly older-sisterish of her role. Kenny Moore, the SPORTS ILLUSTRATED writer (and former Olympic marathon competitor), has a goofy grace as the man who sets Hemingway on the straight path, while Scott Glenn, the memorable heavy of Urban Cowboy, manages to make toughness funny as the women...
...words during the quadrennial head-to-head competition to select the members of the American Olympic team. In the 1930s, Babe Didrikson and Jesse Owens came to national attention at the Trials, foreshadowing the performances that made the 1932 Los Angeles and 1936 Berlin Games memorable. Last time, a hurdler named Edwin Moses set an American record in the 400-meter hurdles. He went on to etch a world mark at Montreal in 1976 and has since put together a string of 40 consecutive victories...
...Hurdler Chuck Johnson perhaps best described the sort of feeling that built a brotherhood on this year's team: "After the track banquet, after the speeches and the hoopla and the awards, serious or silly, a lot of the team just stood around not wanting to leave, sorry that it was all over...