Word: lapsed
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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So in recent years, the backroom jockeys' influence has receded substantially. Now, the horses don't even train for the quadrennial summer races--after all, they only have to trot a few perfunctory laps.
Another Yardling, Eric "Monster" Schuler, trailed Northeastern's Troy Billings for 13 laps in the 5000-meter race, then calmly left him in the dust to win in 14:25.4, a new meet record.
In the last four 400-meter laps, Heiden was magnificent. Despite the growing pain, he skated each lap in exactly 35.2 sec. Finishing in 14:28.13, he was so tired that he could not even lift his head on his victory lap, let alone acknowledge the cheers.
For the first 1100 yards of the race, Gildea and Princeton's Ann Habernigg were separated by no more than one-half second. But with 20 laps remaining, the Crimson star began to pull away and eventually won by almost nine seconds.
"I had tightened up pretty badly in the 100 earlier (in the 100 free individual event), so I was trying to concentrate on pushing back farther instead of increasing my turnover on the third and fourth laps," Cahoon said later. "I didn't think I'd done that well until...