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...meter mark, the Crimson made a charge and opened up a one-length lead. With 500 meters left, Harvard put on one final sprint to widen its lead. The Crimson won the race by open water...
...expecting a very tough race, the Radcliffe crews trained through the week, not tapering as they usually do for Saturday race. After doing 10 sprint pieces during a Friday workout, the varsity team went into the race a little tired...
...everyone is. Mark Spitz, 41, now a businessman in Beverly Hills, is the marvelous sprint swimmer who at the '72 Olympics in Munich won seven gold medals in world-record time. Spitz had a world-class mustache and was smashingly handsome. The only knock against him was that he projected the personality of a 22-year-old who had spent a lot of time in swimming pools...
Women athletes are no less susceptible to ego and endorphins than men, though their comebacks tend to be no-bucks, low-publicity events. But Nancy Lieberman Cline, 32, arguably the best woman basketball player ever, is working out several hours a day to make her third Olympic team, and sprint swimmer Jill Sterkel, 29, hopes to make her fifth. Why do it? Says Lieberman Cline: "As world-class athletes, we are treated special. Since the first moment anyone recognized we had an ounce of talent, we've been stroked. We're spoiled...
...running at full sprint from the monster of garbage...