Word: nanoseconds
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Steve Ovett. Astonishingly, they have met only once before. In an 800-meter duel in 1978, they exhausted each other with kamikaze sprints, only to be passed by a third runner in the stretch. In Moscow, Coe is favored at 800 meters, and Ovett is given a nanosecond edge in the 1,500. Jim Tuppeny, a U.S. track official who is organizing an alternate meet in Philadelphia this month, handicaps the 1,500 this way: "Ovett is stronger, but if Coe goes out fast, lifts the times and then hangs on, he will...
...straighter and rougher, he bounced several times violently for an instant as if he had lost everything, his limbs doing minute, chaotic leaps-roughly the effect of a man being electrocuted while descending on a roller coaster. Once or twice his ski tips flipped up anarchically for a nanosecond in the direction of his nose. With his strong, gyroscopic instincts, Stock disciplined those little apocalypses and hurtled on, his body tucked into a bullet, a jaunty and maniacal capsule rocketing down the mountainside...