LONDON — Down the track he came with the stadium's howling, gale-force British hope filling every molecule of air he swallowed, his best friend and training partner strides ahead of him while Galen Rupp kept running for his life.
The thunderous clangor was for Mo Farah,Britain's own. He had the 10,000-meter race lead. Rupp, the bumpkin-faced interloper from Oregon had Ethiopians to out-charge. It was the scene Rupp's coach set a day earlier with spectral clairvoyance: You have a chance to win, Alberto Salazar told him. You have to do it in the final 100 meters.
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