Word: marathoned
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...refreshing to hear any Stones product that's this good, so good that it makes you wonder why all the Stones albums since the excellent Some Girls 10 years ago have been so lame. Maybe Richards needed to escape from the restrictions of the Stones' marathon studio sessions and ego circuses in order to stretch and flex his musical muscles...
...follow him. Yet still he kept on going. One could imagine the view from his end: the dispiriting sight of distant bodies receding as he tried to catch them, then the even more desolating sight of nothing but open track. That is why the lonely figure, isolated as a marathon runner, received the loudest cheers of all. It is also why all eyes except the camera's were trained on the lanky 32-year-old man with dark, long legs and yellow shoes. His was not a telegenic image, just a human...
...marathon, Kenyan Douglas Wakiihuri finished second. The great final race of the Games was won by Italy's Gelindo Bordin, who came on at the end. The last 2,000 meters "was like a war," said the exhausted, exhilerated champion...
Florence and Jackie were not the only ones to bring new maturity to their sports. The first gold medal awarded in track and field went to Rosa Mota of Portugal, who won the women's marathon in 2:25:39. While the hot and humid conditions made a new record unlikely, the race was a lot more exciting than Joan Benoit's solitary romp through the streets of Los Angeles in the first- ever women's marathon four years ago. Mota, 30, ran most of the race in the pack. Never, in fact, have so many women run together...
...ended up with Tokyo colonizing its neighbor from 1910 until 1945, forcing Koreans to adopt Japanese beliefs, Japanese words, even Japanese names. In fact, the man given the honor of carrying the torch into the Olympic stadium was, symbolically enough, Sohn Kee Chung, the Korean who won the 1936 marathon running reluctantly under a Japanese name and flag and who became a symbol for Korea's resistance...