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USC student
By Tracy Mixson
IJSC student Craic Seto said he has t
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always enjoyed doing crazy things. But
he said the thought of enduring the 26
miles of a marathon sounded crazy
even to him.
4<It was something unicjue to do,"
the biology major said, who finished
10th among 400 runners in Saturday's
eighth-annual Carolina Marathon.
"Being a wrestler (in high school), I've
always strived for those kind of crazy
things. The marathon seemed to be the
epitome of running, so I wanted to
participate."
Seto, a senior from Woodbridge,
Va., finished with a time of 2:42:01.
At 21, he was the youngest runner of
the top 30 finishers.
HE SAID he didn't run for the
awards or recognition.
"It was a personal type goal," he
said. "In fact, I didn't even know I
had finished so high until I crossed the
finish line. This guy handed me a
paper and I was shocked when I saw I
had finished 10th."
Seto said he had run the marathon
twice since his sophomore year. He
first decided to run when he learned
that a physiology study was being conJenner
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ALTHOUGH HE still holds the Olympi
scored in the decathlon, Jenner said he b
broken this summer. He said Great Britain'
was the favorite in the event, who partic
Olympics at 18, and won the gold four ye
Jenner said the U.S. boycott of the 1980
the 1984 American team.
"I know several athletes in the decathloi
who quit because they were disgusted w
terference," he said.
But he added politics are a part of the
"1 WOULD love to have the Oly
politics," he said. "That is not realistic th
dream a little then I'd love to have them
"The Olympic games are the bigges
world, politically, socially and, of course,
have to live with the political aspect a
destroy (the games.)"
Jenner said he never expected to becom
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HE CREDITS ABC-TV's coverage of
his initial widespread popularity. Before t
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Placed 10th in race
ducted on the post-recovery of running
a marathon.
"It was designed for people running
the Carolina Marathon," he said. "I
remember saying, 'Gosh, I've never
run a marathon, but I'd love to.' So
they got me in shape for it and I ran
my first'marathon two years ago. I
swore I'd never do it again, but I'm
glad I did."
"1 WAS a wrestler in high school,"
he said. "Then I came down here and
since they didn't have a wrestling
team, I took up running."
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elieves it could be
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ipated in the 1976 can ^earn a ll
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Olympics will hurt SBparatBQ.
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th the political ingames.
his life to training,
mpic games above "1 guess 1 spen
nking, but if we can surance salesman s
senarafed. USC students.
happening in the After years of tr
ithletically. We just 30, 1976, when he
id hope it doesn't event, the 1,500 m<
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e such a prominent he had always fant
suffered from the
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knew the gold was i
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the 1976 games for screamed as loud a
lat, he had devoted end," he said.
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He became a member of his first I
track sauad this past semester, when I
he joined USC's cross country team. ! r
Seto credits fellow cross-country |
teammate Terry O'Toole for en- | <
couraging him and providing inspira- I
tion along the 26 miles. I
"He was always there saying, 'I'll be a
there' and 'I'll help coach you,"' Seto fj
said. "He was on the bike the whole
way, giving me water and saying p
'C'mon, you can do it."' j
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I HE RUNNER said the training he |
underwent for cross country also |
hel pcd him in the marathon. I
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that I never knew before." he said. | ?-ia:r
"They brought speed in me I didn't I ^ *
know I had. I Senat
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"We were running 10-kilometer I?.
races and they started coming easy for
me, so I wanted to try the marathon
again with the base I had developed. I
ran the marathon before, but it was VI
nothing like what 1 did this time.
"The training definitely helped," he M
said. "I improved my time by more BB B
than 12 minutes."
Seto finished 43rd out of 318 run- ^
ners in 1983 with a time of 2:54:53.8. ^
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aining, Jenner's dreams were realized July
clinched the gold in the decathlon's final
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) he reached the point in the j:ace of which =
asized.
\e finish line," he said. "It was the final "BsS|
00 meters. When I reached that point and I'l-'v-Xr
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the finish line, threw my arms in the air J | ~ r
s 1 could, and knew that it had come to an
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