Word: zatopek
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Probably it is too simple of human beings to want to look in on their own progress quadrennially, hoping to gauge how far they have gone by how fast they can go, as if the breed could hope to improve on Emil Zatopek. He was the beau ideal in 1952, a balding Czech about the size of a parking meter, who ran all day and all night with his shirt peeled up and his tongue rolled down. When Zatopek raced, hearts raced. Whoever his modern descendant might be -- the Moroccan Said Aouita, likely as not -- he will almost certainly...