Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some delirious need to wave American flags has surfaced, fanning a passion previously associated with burning them. The sentimental tears and cheers of the pre-Olympic torch run turned into unembarrassed howls and shrieks last week for U.S. medalists taking a transcontinental victory lap from Los Angeles to Washington to New York to Disney World to Dallas. "I thought they'd be bored with us by now," said Steve Lundquist, the swimmer. "This is fantastic...
...last marathon runner we watched emerge from the tunnel into the Coliseum was a Haitian with a lovely, euphonious name, Dieudonne Lamothe. He ran his last lap stolidly, engulfed by applause, and when he crossed the finish line he was the 78th runner to do so. The orange Halloween-hat traffic cones used to guide Lamothe and his swifter brethren onto the track from the tunnel were picked up; the tunnel was blocked off so that such scheduled rituals as the awarding of the final medals, the reintroduction of the athletes, the arrival of a spaceship, the performance...
...just running on feeling," he said later. "I was having a good time." After his victory lap (wearing a light blue T shirt that read across the chest, THANKS AMERICA FOR A GREAT GAMES, and added on the back BUT WHAT ABOUT THE TV COVERAGE?), Thompson was greeted by Princess Anne. "Daley, what did she say to you?" a reporter asked. Answered Thompson: "She said I was a damn good-looking guy." So began another stand-up comedy routine...
Nothing, however inconsequential, seemed to escape the notice of the press. When Carl Lewis grabbed a huge American flag from the stands to run a victory lap with it after winning the 100 meters, the press descended on the spectator whose flag it was. The next day in the Los Angeles Times it was all there-his name (Tucker), where he was from (New Orleans), his age (50), where he was sitting (row 2, section 27) and that he had got his flag back afterward...
...cordy tendons that tend to contract when activity has ceased. With attentions thus focused everywhere but on the track, a single figure, perhaps a choir member or a carpenter, but a name unknown outside of family and friends, would burst into a sprint, or commence a fast-paced lap, and at the end of the run raise the arms high to accept the imaginary tape snapping across the chest. Thus the irresistible fantasy was played...