Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rowe has dominated the Heptagonal 1000 for the past two years and had beaten Sheehan easily last week in the Big Three meet. Saturday, it looked like Rowe had wrapped up the event for the third consecutive year, building a substantial lead with only two laps remaining. But Sheehan exploded with his usual final-lap kick and almost caught Rowe as they rounded the last turn...
...Harvard runner immediately found himself boned in at the back of the pack, unable to pass. He surged toward the front in the gun lap to move from seventh to third, but was unable to catch William and Princeton's Mark Voit, who finished first and second respectively...
...first scene would show our heroes huddled around a telephone lap, listening to King's private conversations. The suspect is discussing an up coming trip to San Francisco where he will lobby for civil rights and fundraise for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The G Men jump into action, and soon technical experts from the San Francisco branch are wiring King's hotel room with taps and hidden television cameras...
Stricker later completed a difficult double by winning the grueling 3000, despite hot pursuit by Yale's Margaret Wynne, who ran at the yardling's elbow for most of the 15-lap race. Her face flushed with exertion. Stricker proved her superior mettle by streaking through the last lap for another meet and Coxe Cage record of 9,39,43. Harvard freshman Kathy Goode coming off a lengthy stress fracture injury, took fourth...
Countryman repeated in the 200 butterfly, passing Cornell's Steve O'Day on the final lap to win the event...