Word: olympicsized
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But, as in the modern games, athletes considered the rewards worth the risks. Presaging the late Vince Lombardi's dictum that winning was the only thing, the founders of the first Olympics placed little value on participation for its own sake. There were no prizes for second and third...
Politics and providence permitting, one of the most memorable foot races of modern times would have been the 1,500-meter final on Saturday, July 31, the last full day of the Olympics. Tanzania's Filbert Bayi, the world record holder in the 1,500 (3:32.2), was expected...
But politics and providence have not been kind to these runners. Although Bayi (pronounced Bye-ee) and Walker have been scheduled to compete against each other numerous times during the past two years, the combination of malaria (Bayi's), aching Achilles' tendons (Walker's) and governments (both...
Bayi, a 23-year-old Tanzanian air force lieutenant and flight mechanic, has consistently said he would accept his government's decision about the Olympics. "Sure I want to run against Walker," Bayi said recently, "but that's not the most important thing. We have to fight against...
Such self-abnegation cannot have come easily. So intense was Bayi's desire to stave off Walker's onslaught on his record that he had been rising before dawn each morning at the Tanzanian training camp near Mount Kilimanjaro to take a brisk, eight-mile jog through the...