Word: pyarnakivi
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...jerking from side to side, arms flopping in grotesque rhythm. For three laps, he kept on, then fell. Before anyone could reach him, he was up again, shambling forward, dazed. He fell again, and was carried from the field on a stretcher. In quick succession, Russia's Hubert Pyarnakivi and the U.S.'s Max Truex managed to finish, and then they too went into that eerie dance of exhaustion. Both Americans were rushed to the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, the Russian to his hotel room, and all three were given intravenous injections of water, salt, sugar and vitamins...
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