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...speed plateau. She is able to run faster than ever, but her hamstrings can't take the strain." Kaminoff treated the Injury with an Electro-Acuscope, a mysterious contraption related to Eastern acupuncture used by Sports Sociologist Jack Scott in reviving Joan Benoit before her victory in the marathon trial. Encased in tights, Ashford had to pull up in her 200 qualifying heat after 70 meters. An alternative favorite, Chandra Cheeseborough, also dropped out (to rest a pulled hamstring), leaving first in the final to Valerie Briscoe-Hooks. Cheeseborough earlier ran a U.S.-record 400 (49.28), and expects...
When the pain persisted, Benoit flew to Eugene, Ore., to consult her coach, Bob Sevene. Conventional treatment-rest, anti-inflammatory drugs, cortisone injections-did not help. So last Wednesday, she underwent arthroscopic surgery in Eugene for the removal of an inflamed plica, a soft, penny-size piece of tissue underneath the knee. When damaged by the kind of stress placed on it by distance runners, the plica thickens, interfering with the tendons in the knee and causing considerable pain. Now the question is how soon she will be ready to run again...
...race of a different kind is just beginning for the world's fastest female marathoner. Joan Benoit, 26, the plucky, pint-size distance runner from Freeport, Me., had seemed a good bet to challenge Norway's Grete Waitz in this year's Olympic marathon, the first ever for women, but on March 20 during a 20-mile run near her home, she noticed a peculiar pain in her right knee...
...There's no doubt about it. She's lost fitness," notes Sevene. But engineers quickly rigged a special bicycle that she can pedal with her hands even while she is still in bed. The coach hopes that Benoit will begin running this week and get in three 14-mile runs before the women's Olympic trials at the end of next week. Says Sevene: "The doctors say it's going to be tight. But if she can pull it off, it's a hell of a story." -By Richard Stengel. Reported by Steven Holmes/Los Angeles
Looking as fresh as if she had just completed an afternoon stroll, Home-Town Favorite Joan Benoit, 25, glided across the finish line of the 87th Boston Marathon in the time of 2:22:42. That was almost three minutes faster than the previous women's record for the distance, held jointly by New Zealand's Allison Roe and Norway's Crete Waitz. Incredibly, Benoit finished less than 14 minutes after the men's winner, Greg Meyer, 27, who crushed his own competition with a time of 2:09. Said Women's Runner-Up Jacqueline...