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...been withheld from women until this year, when unsinkable Benoit, 27, of Maine and Andersen-Schiess, 39, of Switzerland came to opposite conclusions in the marathon. "I was extremely comfortable the entire way. It was a very smooth, happy, training-run atmosphere," said Benoit, whose 2-hr. 24-min. 52-sec. frolic was dramatic only in light of the arthroscopic knee surgery she underwent 17 days prior to winning...
Norway's gaunt and great Grete Waitz finished second, 1 min. 26 sec. late, without encouraging any discussion of her chronically creaky back. It had been in severe spasm the day before. Benoit was "too strong," said Grete, who had never before lost a marathon that she finished. By the halfway point, according to her old Norwegian saying, "the train had already left." Waitz was one of the few runners who viewed the Swiss straggler with a totally unmixed emotion: "I would have taken her right off the track. I don't like to watch that." Benoit sighed...
...tape measure and stretches it 171 ft. along the track, the distance of his approach for the long jump. This is the first activity of most workouts. But Lewis does not normally jump in practice; he merely runs through the paces of his approach. This final workout lasts 40 min. During that time, he takes only three runs. He is in action for a scant total of 30 sec. But Tellez, as serene as his student, intends the last few workouts for fine-tuning, not of the body so much as of the mind. Until now Lewis felt that...
...been booted off the air for two weeks to make way for coverage of the Olympics. (The others: The Edge of Night and Loving.) The network's remaining soaps-All My Children, One Life to Live and General Hospital-are continuing during the Games, but in shortened, 40-min. episodes so that all three can be squeezed into a special two-hour time slot. No matter how well ABC's Olympics coverage does in the ratings (which have been excellent so far), the disarray in the network's daytime schedule could have a lasting and damaging effect...
...Astronaut Kathy Sullivan had hoped that on a shuttle flight next October she would become the first woman to walk in space. Last week, however, Soviet Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya, 36, beat her to it. Accompanied by the mission commander, Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Savitskaya spent 3 hr. 35 min. outside the Salyut7 space station, wielding an experimental tool to cut and solder metal plates. Shaped like a large camera, the all-purpose, hand-operated device emits a laser-like beam of electrons. Savitskaya and Dzhanibekov then switched roles, and she photographed him as he worked...