In Los Angeles, the trials that time men's bodies
In the blinking sunshine and swirling breezes of Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, clean and cheerful if never more than one-third full, the US. Olympic track-and-field team was determined last week in a stirring celebration of more than Carl Lewis, but Lewis most of all. Before a man can win four gold medals, he must qualify in four events, and Lewis did this with a flourish, though without posting any records. Fragile Sprinter Evelyn Ashford's gold-medal ambitions declined from three to two. Hurdlers Edwin Moses and...
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