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Article: THE QUICK AND THE DREAD 400 GIVES MEANING TO FULFILLING BURNING DESIRE.(Special Pullouts)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- August 21, 2004
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Byline: Jody Berger, Rocky Mountain News
ATHENS -- Runner after runner crossed the finish line and fell to his knees. One fell further and collapsed into a heap under the relentless Sacramento sun.
More than one lost his lunch in a lurid display of exercise-induced nausea.
And all of them gratefully, if somewhat numbly, accepted the icy towels volunteers draped over their necks, shoulders and heads.
But it wasn't the heat alone that pulled these men down at the U.S. Track and Field trials last month. It was the distance.
Runners like Jeremy Wariner, Otis Harris and Derrick Brew - studly runners with bodies seemingly cut from ...