Word: lapping
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...broke smoothly and whirled through the first two laps in perfect position just behind the early leaders with Coe right on Cram's back. Coe stayed with his younger rival through the third lap, and for a moment, at the bell for the final lap, Coe seemed to be gaining. But then Cram, whose shock of curly blond hair, perfect legs and finely sculpted features give him the look of a Greek demigod, began to turn up the burners, rolling faster and faster with no apparent strain. As the field stretched out in the last lap, he was simply flying...
...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 it in." --By Ezra Bowen. Reported by Bent Onsager/Oslo
...glad TCS exists. I wouldn’t have met some of my closest friends without it. Taiwanese kids don’t fall into your lap that easily, even though ethnic affiliations are a bit easier to identify than other commonalities...
Audience members could not help but be particularly struck by Bartosik’s composure. She often played a difficult run or trill with one hand while resting the other calmly on her lap. Her cadenza and display of virtuosity at the end of the first movement was brilliant and unquestionably qualified as the moment of the most laudable musicality of the night...
...when you win the 2005 EISL 1650-yard freestyle by almost 30 seconds, the only glimpse you get of other competitors comes when you lap them...