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...METAPHORS] "Everything before has been a warm-up lap, a trial heat...In San Diego the real race begins...
...twice. Reeve always did it three or four times. "The last thing I remember is that on Saturday morning I went out and walked the course again," he says. "I finished suiting up, got Buck out of his stall, rechecked the girth, hopped onboard and headed out for the warm-up area. The next thing I remember was Wednesday afternoon in the hospital at the University of Virginia...
...final event, the 1,500 m, ran a victory lap with the American flag. There they were, two men robbed by fate in '92, covered in the cheers of 80,000. When it came time for O'Brien to take the stand, he remembered he had left his warm-up suit behind. So he borrowed the suit of another man of similar height and weight. That's how Michael Johnson's track suit pulled its own double Thursday night...
...death threats or a torched house, persists in defending, against all logic, and McConaughey's boyish good looks and exquisite hair carry him through admirably. Yet it is often more compelling to watch Kiefer Sutherland, a brother of a slain redneck, encountering evil greater than himself during his Klan warm-up meeting, or Chris Cooper (again as a sheriff, markedly different from his "Lone Star" role) grimacing his way through shock and pain...
...itself. You feel trapped. The line at the bottom of the pool haunts your dreams." Gary Hall Sr., who set 11 world records in his time and held his 21-month-old namesake aloft after making his third Olympic team in '76, isn't worried about his son. "At warm-up meets, he goes through the motions, and that freaks out a lot of coaches," says Hall Sr., now a Phoenix eye surgeon. "But when the chips are down, he's always done very well...