Word: sprinter
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...Lippincott fizzled in the final, finishing third. Still, his mark stood until his compatriot, Charley Paddock, topped him by notching a 10.4 at a meet in California nine years later. The reigning Olympic champion, Paddock won attention as much for his prerace habits as for his speed; the colorful sprinter was renowned for quaffing a sherry mixed with raw egg before entering the blocks. (Read about Bolt's record-breaking performance in Beijing...
...Percy Williams, a Canadian, became the first non-American to take the title. Six years later, Owens took the record back with a 10.2-second time - part of the epic performance in Berlin in which the sprinter notched four gold medals and punctured Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy beneath the Fuhrer's scornful gaze...
...under the pressure. In 1988, Jamaican-born Canadian Ben Johnson clocked a scorching 9.79 at the Seoul Olympics, but quickly had his record expunged after testing positive for the anabolic steroid stanozolol. Johnson wasn't the last World's Fastest Human to succumb to the lure of steroids. American sprinter Justin Gatlin, who ran a 9.77 at a meet in Qatar, is serving a four-year suspension for doping, and Tim Montgomery - who called the title the "top of the food chain" in sports - was ensnared in the BALCO steroid scandal and stripped of his record. He is currently serving...
...swim. For these women, there are only two answers: a clever outfit that breathes or sequestration in a same-sex exercise facility. The athletic veil, known as the hijood, is made from high-tech fabric that's meant to wick sweat off the skin. It debuted when the Bahraini sprinter Rogaya Al Ghasara wore it while competing at the 2008 Olympics. While it takes a certain steely piety to wear the hijood - its slick ninja-esque style might be too assertively Muslim for some - the relative ease of sweating or swimming in something other than heavy cotton is pretty unbeatable...
Three canines launched themselves towards me at full speed, jaws unlocked (ready to sink into some gringo flesh, I surmised). Instantly, I morphed into a sprinter, shredding layers of leather off of my driving mocs as I drowned my lungs...