Word: marathoning
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...hero was its only triple winner, Emil Zatopek, the brilliant, eccentric-styled Czechoslovakian army captain who runs as if every step would be his last. After shattering Olympic marks in the 5,000-and 10,000-meter runs, he capped his own climax by breaking the Olympic marathon record the first & only time he ever ran the tortuous (26 mi. 385 yd.) distance. The biggest Olympic disappointment was Japan's top-rated swimming team, which copped only two silver medals. Even famed Hironoshin ("the Flying Fish") Furuhashi straggled in a bad last in the 400-meter free-style final...
...clock one afternoon last week, weary television crews snapped off their lights, closed down their cameras and gratefully headed home from Chicago, groggy, red-eyed, aching for sleep. Following the interminable roll calls and floor battles of the Democratic marathon, they had been on the job up to 15 hours a day, a total of 77 hours in six days (v. 70 hours for the Republicans). But they had learned some invaluable lessons in the art of covering fast-breaking news...
...same day that Ingrova set a women's Olympic javelin mark of 165 ft. 7.05 in., husband Emil cracked the Olympic 5,000-meter record in 14 min. 6 sec. With a 10,000-meter record already in the bag, he entered the 26-mile marathon three days later, broke another Olympic record in 2 hrs. 23 min. 3.2 sec. to become the only Olympic athlete ever to sweep the three distance races...
...college professor, Johns Hopkins' Economist Clarence D. Long is gloomily aware that his earning power has been steadily losing ground in the endless marathon with rising living costs. As a practicing economist, he is also professionally concerned by "this singular inability of the pedagogue to hold his place at the American banquet table...
...These hagglings were mild in comparison to other how-de-dos of the past. Among the most notable: during the London games of 1908, staggering Italian Dorando Pietri was dragged across the finish line of the marathon by Britons wishful to see him beat the U.S.'s fast-closing Johnny Hayes. Dorando was helped to his feet four times in all, and Hayes, after an outraged American protest, was finally declared the winner. Afterwards, both turned "pro" and cashed in on the publicity with a marathon race at the old Madison Square Garden. Dorando won by 60 yards...