Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...delicate they all really are, and how fragile their dream. For every flying Carl Lewis there is a fallen Mary Decker, and the fullest appreciation of sport requires both. Joan Benoit breezes in gracefully from her marathon, while Gabriela Andersen-Schiess lurches along grotesquely behind, and the picture-memory of the spectators develops into a composite of both images-the terrific and the terrible-much more touching as an entry than either could be individually. The happiest circumstance, of course, is when they take turns. First U.S. Gymnast Mary Lou Retton rejoiced as Rumania's Ecaterina Szabo sighed, then...
...relationship between the level of physical activity and the length of life." Fatal heart disease was found to be nearly twice as common among the most sedentary subjects as it among the most active, Concludes Dr. George Shee-the medical editor Runner's World magazine, who is a marathon runner was a friend of Fixx...
...history of smoking and be overweight probably contributed to problem. Significantly, Fixx's father a heart attack at 35 and was dead 43. Heredity plays a very important in heart disease, notes Cardiologist Winslow of Chicago's Northwestern Medical Center and medical director of the Chicago marathon. "You could say that Fixx was running with the cards stacked against him," he says...
Whatever technology or ingenuity could provide, ABC bought. At a cost of more than $150,000, it built a sleek futuristic van, 22 ft. long and 7 ft. wide, packing it with cameras and monitors to record the 26 miles and 385 yds. of the marathon. The van's shots of runners will be supplemented by hand-held cameras on two specially adapted motorcycles moving along the marathon route. All three vehicles will be powered by electricity, since exhaust fumes might bother the athletes. To follow the rowers and canoeists without swamping them in the wake of an ordinary...
...bureaucratic tone, the announcement triggered a week of political drama that led within days to the collapse of France's fragile and often acrimonious "union of the left." After a series of all-night marathon discussions, the Communist Party announced that it was quitting Mitterrand's three-year-old Socialist administration. "We do not have the moral right to allow millions of women, men and disappointed youths to believe that we can meet their expectations within the present government," declared Communist Spokesman Pierre Juquin. "We refuse to deceive them, as we refuse to deceive ourselves...