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...determined not to make the same mistake in last Friday's 1,500. The first two laps were leisurely, with Coe and Ovett a few yards off the lead in third and fourth places. Then East Germany's Jurgen Straub, 26, spurted in front, and the quarter-mile pace quickened from 63 sec. to 55, just the way Coe likes it. He hit the accelerator in the backstretch and roared past Straub into the lead. Ovett gave chase but could not even catch the East German. Coe's winning time was a slow 3:38.4, more than...
That will be a difficult task in the 1,500-meter freestyle, where Vladimir Salnikov of the Soviet Union last week became the first man to break 15 minutes, an achievement that swimmers rank with running the mile in less than four minutes. Urged on by a chanting, cheering crowd, Salnikov, 20, finished in 14:58.27, more than four seconds below the world record set by Brian Goodell of the U.S. during the 1976 games. "If the U.S. swimmers were here in the pool, I'm sure my time would have been the same," he said afterward, speaking through...
Ovett, a onetime art student from the seaside resort of Brighton, trains obsessively, running as much as 160 miles a week, compared with Coe's 50 to 70. Before the Olympics, Ovett downplayed the 800-meter contest. Said he: "I'm in the 800 because I'm in Moscow and I do want to win it. But the race is over too quickly for me." Even so, the cocky, sometimes surly mile record holder gave himself a 50% chance of winning. What is worse, at least from Coe's standpoint, is that he has upped...
...them Republicans, forgave Rose Kennedy years ago for rearing a President and two Senators of the Democratic persuasion. So hundreds of residents turned out for a "Rose Parade" celebrating her 90th birthday. Materfamilias, resplendent in a bright, broad-brimmed hat, was not quite up to joining those marching a mile and a half in behalf of her favorite charity, the Special Olympics for the mentally retarded. But she waved and smiled heartily from a 1940 Buick convertible as the crowd sang "Happy Birthday" and a plane towed a similar greeting across the summer sky. What did Rose wish...
Despite winning the two-mile in a national AAU meet at age 15, Hart stopped running competitively her sophomore year at Albuquerque Academy because of what she terms "motivational and coaching problems...