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...roles would be played by understudies. Though some 2,500 outsiders were on hand to vie for medals with 10,000 Soviets, many foreign stars chose either to remain home or compete elsewhere. The U.S. track and field team, for example, arrived without such mainstays as Hurdler Edwin Moses, Miler Francie Larrieu, High Jumper Franklin Jacobs and Middle Distance Runner Steve Scott. Even the East Germans seemed to have better things to do, preferring to concentrate on this week's European Cup track competition in Turin...
...appear until later. He ran a 3:57.7 mile in 1977, and he turned in the second fastest 800 meter in the world last year. Still, no one saw him as any threat to his celebrated countryman Steve Ovett, 23, who until last week was the top-rated miler around. Ovett had cockily predicted that any winner at Oslo would find victory "hollow," because he was not entered. Afterward, he graciously credited Coe with "a superb piece of work...
Taylor, a miler and two miler from San Mateo, Calif., set a record for Harvard women in the 3000 meters this season and was part of the relay team which broke the Harvard mark in the the two mile relay. Harper is a hurdler and long jumper from Worcester, whom coach Pappy Hunt called a "top scorer this season...
...lead going into the last leg, but Princeton threw its best half miler at us for the final stretch." Hunt said...
Teammates Sue Hewitt and Liane Rozzell tied for the runnerup spot, high jumping to a new Harvard mark of 5-ft. 2-in. Half miler and co-captain Sarah Linsley captured second place in her event while setting another school record...