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...sessions, the I.O.C. approved a clutch of new women's events, including a bicycle race of either 50 or 70 km, the 400-meter intermediate hurdles and the 3,000-meter run. The last event leaves female distance runners less than 25 miles short of their goal: a marathon for women. One less orthodox addition is windsurfing, in which both sexes may compete. Naturally, there were some losers too: table tennis was rejected...
...both events in 1972 and 1976, and Miruts Yifter, a fast-finishing Ethiopian who missed the 1976 Olympics due to an African boycott of the Games. Viren is entered in the 10,000 but is so far undecided about whether to run the 5,000 or the marathon...
Opening week at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival is always a dramatic marathon. Trumpeters in Elizabethan garb signal curtaintime and send eight plays sprinting off the mark in five days, beginning a five-month competition that often finds the winners and the losers in close contention. Four of this season's entries...
...boosting appearance before the N.E.A. was the highlight of a frantic week of sputtering presidential fireworks, or possibly distress signals, as he tried to generate momentum for his campaign. Though he had just returned from a moderately upbeat trip to Europe, Carter took off on another 15-day marathon that would wing him twice across the U.S., then to Japan, then to a stopover in Alaska on the way back and finally to a few days of rest at Sapelo Island off the coast of Georgia, where he would watch the Republican Convention...
...track mentor each put up $500 and went into business importing Japanese running shoes. In 1972 they first produced their own make of shoe, naming it after the Greek goddess of victory. Just before the 1972 Olympic trials in Eugene, Ore., Knight and Bowerman persuaded several marathon runners to try them. Runners wearing Adidas finished first, second and third, but the next four runners wore Nikes...