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...memorable tears. It staggered him and everyone else. And the financial stripe of Mary Decker's shoes stopped being a topic of much interest once they became tangled in the loose limbs of a dramatic child, as Decker fell by the wayside of her lifelong race. Barefoot Zola Budd of South Africa and England padded onward in tears and boos, but her heart appeared to have dropped beside Decker. So that was the outcome of the Games' great confrontation: a double knockout...
...attraction for either Decker, 26, or Budd, 18, front runners in every sense. They would naturally fight for the lead, where they could ignore the jostling and bumping behind them. A half-stride ahead on the outside at the 1600-meter mark and in tight quarters with Decker, Zola was knocked first abobble and then akimbo (see box). Decker, meanwhile, could not have been flipped so unexpectedly if someone in the infield had stuck out a cane. Budd's left leg had angled out so oddly that she could not have done it voluntarily, much less intentionally. Bleeding from...
...there was a foul, let alone who committed it. Cornelia Buerki of Switzerland, also South African-born, had a respectable view from the back of the pack. "I would say it was Mary's fault," she said. "She was trying to pass Budd on the inside and spiked Zola's Achilles. Zola couldn't help anything because she couldn't see in the back of her head." Instantly, ABC Commentator Marty Liquori thought Budd's inexperience was the culprit, but he changed his mind the next day: "Both runners could have done something to avoid...
...they are massive arms. Set down on a small flight of steps in the tunnel, she accepted condolences from all the other runners but one. "Don't bother," she told Budd, who once kept a photograph of Decker tacked on her bedroom wall, the one in South Africa. "Zola Budd tried to cut in basically without being ahead," said Decker, who added she would have pushed Budd but feared newspaper headlines and disqualification. "I should have pushed," she said. They will push each other in the future...
...memory and manners, went to West Germany, followed by Switzerland and Sweden. Touch of Class led a disciplined U.S. squad to its first ever gold in team show jumping. Joe Fargis, who shares a Virginia farm with Homfeld, was aboard. He compared the little mare to Runner Zola Budd: "She's quite small too, but she runs very fast for her size...