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When Harold Abrahams went to the starting line in Paris in '24, his coach, Sam Mussabini, told him, "Only think of two things--the report of the pistol and the tape. When you hear the one, just run like hell till you break the other." There is a little more to the 100 than that. Even though it's over in a heartbeat, the race has three distinct stages: start, acceleration and deceleration. The start itself has two components, the reaction to the gun and the angle of takeoff. Says Brigham Young University track coach Willard Hirschi: "If you come...
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