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He lay sprawled on the track in twilight, his chest rapidly rising and falling like a sleeping infant's. ... Michael Johnson stared at a darkening Spanish sky and at a full moon above the Seville Olympic Stadium, and then he ended a decade's pursuit of that 400-meter record and three years of injury and frustration with one crooked smile.

--From "Back on Track" by Tim Layden, Sports Illustrated, September 6, 1999

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