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Marathoners are used to racing against time, each other and themselves, but for the past year Alberto Salazar has been running against an opponent he had never encountered before: failure. In 1982 the Cuban-born Salazar stood alone as the world's best distance runner. He held the American record in the 5,000-and 10,000-meter runs, and had the world's fastest time in the marathon, in which he was undefeated. An Olympic gold medal glistered on the horizon. Then last year, Salazar began to run down and out. His inner fire seemed to have...
That fire once drove him exuberantly. As a cocky University of Oregon senior in 1980, Salazar predicted that he would win the New York Marathon, the first he had ever entered. He did. The next year he predicted he would run the fastest marathon ever in New York. Again he kept up with his words. His obsession to win almost killed him: in the summer of 1978 he received last rites from a priest when his body temperature hit 108° during the 7.1-mile Falmouth Road Race in Massachusetts; after winning the 1982 Boston Marathon, he required...
...Rotterdam Marathon. His nadir came in August at the World Track and Field Championships in Helsinki. Fighting off bronchitis, he finished last in the 10,000 meters. The gritty and fiercely proud runner could hardly recognize himself. "I know that wasn't me out there," he said. Salazar took two weeks off, the first holiday he had allowed himself since he was 13. Bewildered and troubled, he diagnosed his own problem: "I just tried to train and race at too high a level for too long a time. It finally caught up with...
...attract other anti-Sandinistas under a broadened F.D.N. umbrella. But more questions were raised than answered. The six new leaders stressed their opposition to Somoza as well as to the Sandinistas. But the biographical handouts were suspiciously skimpy. The group was an odd mix: from the respectable Lucia Cardenal Salazar, the widow of a Somoza opponent killed by the Sandinistas, to Enrique Bermúdez, a colonel in the National Guard and Somoza's defense attaché in Washington from 1976 to 1979. The Nicaraguan exiles strained credulity when they claimed to know nothing of the F.D.N. raids from...
...Schlesinger may only have run in two marathons before entering the New York City Marathon last weekend, but that didn't keep the first-year Law School student from finishing third, only two minutes and 26 seconds behind winner Alberto Salazar...