Word: marathoned
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...about time someone discovered that fencing is more than a few slashes. Instead of showing two hours of sweaty women running a marathon, television broadcasters should have shown a few minutes of fencing...
With the exception of Joan Benoit's victory in the marathon, all the gold medals won by the U.S. in track and field were captured by black Americans. This feat is testimony that talent combined with motivation and opportunity can prevail against enormous odds. Nevertheless, as a black American I feel we must constantly remind young blacks that regardless of the achievements of Valerie Briscoe-Hooks and Carl Lewis, sport is an extra curricular activity. To abandon academics in favor of sports is as risky as betting the house rent on the lottery...
...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...
...original marathon field had consisted of 107 runners. What had happened to the rest of the contestants? Had they all dropped out, or were a number of them milling around outside the tunnel on Vermont Avenue trying to get in? Or even more poignant-were these exhausted men simply trying to persuade a gate attendant to let them down into the infield so they could watch the festivities with their fellow athletes? The gate attendant would be firm. "Got to have a ticket...
...present in such bodily fluids as blood and semen. After an hour, more Y-containing sperm than sluggish Xs should have sped to the bottom. The Y sperm are further concentrated by being run through increasingly thicker solutions of albumin. "It's like making them run the Boston Marathon with overshoes on," says Ericsson. The prospective mother is then artificially inseminated with the Y-concentrated sperm. Ericsson claims that of 146 women who became pregnant by this method at clinics licensed by Gametrics, 112 bore males-a success rate...