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...Just before Cathy's 400-m race, I was getting a bite and I bumped into Rob de Castella, the great Aussie marathoner from a few years back. I reminded him that we ran the Boston Marathon together once. He said he'd forgotten that, and I said this was understandable since he'd beaten me by an hour and 46 minutes...
Being superhuman, Alba says, can be a pain in the rear end. The other day, she hung for several hours from a building in a harness, sitting on two grips' heads between takes while the crew fiddled with the camera angles. She spent another marathon session hanging from a bar above the set, praying her hands didn't go numb before she dropped--"'catlike,' the director said"--into the frame. "'Then,' he said, 'You just glide over to the door.' I've never done this before! Dropping 6 ft. and not falling on my butt is an accomplishment...
...themselves as men of "the people," Bush and Gore are ignoring the poor in favor of the shoppers at the suburban strip malls where they work and the commuters at the rail station where they make change. Gore has at least been to some of these places, on his marathon Labor Day tour, but no one since President Clinton took his poverty tour last year has focused on them. Since then, Evelyn Nieves recently wrote in the New York Times, "the poor have coped alone...
...home of sumo wrestling, marathon running is big. So big that tiny Naoko Takahashi - 163 cms and 47 kg - has already become a national hero. She staked a claim for a place in the pantheon of Japanese sport with her gold medal-winning performance in Sunday's Olympic marathon. Not only did she win, but she recorded a new Olympic record time of two hours, 23 minutes, 14 seconds and scored Japan's first-ever women's athletic gold...
...Takahashi, who won the Asian Games marathon in 1998 and was hotly tipped for the Seville World Championships last year until injury ruled her out, told them: "I have been aiming for this victory for a very long time and I feel a little sad that I have reached my objective. Tomorrow," she added, "I will have to set my eyes on another goal...