For eight seasons, short, bespectacled Gil Dodds has been something of a track oddity. He usually knelt and prayed before each race. On trips, he often carried bread and honey sandwiches in a paper bag. His awkward running style arms thrashing like windmills outraged the copybook but set a world's indoor mile record of 4:06.4. Last week, just after his coach predicted that he would soon smash that record by as much as two seconds, Dodds said he was through with track forever he had received...
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