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During McClees' victory epee fencer Russ Kaphan battled in a marathon match with Princeton's Glenn Gwozdz. Gwozdz eventually won the duel, after being tied with Kaphan at 4-4 for almost five minutes, withdrawing his blade from a tie-up with Kaphan's and touching him in the stomach...
...mile and a half along the Potomac footpath three times a week at 6:30 a.m. He also reads voraciously and fast. Recently he has consumed the biography of Mao's widow, Chiang Ch'ing, Menachem Begin's autobiographical White Knights and Jules Witcover's Marathon, the story of Jimmy Carter's pursuit of the presidency. Says Blumenthal: "I wanted to see how they got together...
Mitch Reese, playing seventh, blanked Jim Little, and Clark Bain ousted Peter Thayer 3-1 at the eighth seed. The number nine man, Chuck Elliott, emerged victorious from a grueling five-match marathon with Evan Bash...
Some were borne to center stage for the first time, including the woman on TIME'S cover, Peggy Kokernot, 25, a Houston physical education teacher and marathon runner. Along with other women athletes, she had been called on to make up for lost time when the symbolic, 2,612-mile torch relay that preceded the conference began to lag so far behind schedule there was fear the convention would outpace its torch. She was then placed in the group that ran the bronze torch into the opening session, and her own ambition says much about why there was a women...
Kelly, a powerful freestyler out of Philadelphia, where she trained with the Vesper Boat Club, stroked her way to wins in the 100-, 500-, and 1,000-yd. freestyle events, setting two new team records in the 1,000- and 500-yd. swims. In the marathon 1,000, Kelly smashed Maura Costin's old record of 11:10.5 as she turned in a 10:57.25. Kelly's 5:23.83 clocking in the 500 edged Laurie Downey's old record...