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(����LE �HEERING)

(MAN ANNOUNCING ON PA)

(�E��LE �L���ING)

(�E��LE �H���ERING)

��N: Heads up. Heads up. Heads up. Heads up.

(GUN FIRES )

(�E��LE �HEERING)

W���N: �ongratuIations.

��N: Number 88, what's your name? �ut your name down.

(MAN ANNOUNCING ON PA)

�HRIS: I'm sorry, Daddy.

WeII, here's your watch, honey.

-What the fuck do you think you're doing? -�erry.

��N: Ninety-second ruIe, �ory. �ome on.

MAN ON PA: Last caII, second heat, 100-meter hurdIes, pentathIon:

Report to the start:

-I don't know what happened. I mean... -It's aII right.

-I mean, my traiI Ieg, it wouId... -What's wrong with your traiI Ieg?

I don't know.

Honey, I want to know exactIy what's wrong with your traiI Ieg.

(HE�R� �E��ING)

I want to know exactIy how it's bothering you.

(GRUN�S )

(�E��LE �L���ING)

(MAN ANNOUNCING ON PA)

-15 meters, 60. -�II right.

�II right. �II right.

�hat cunt's gonna put me in an earIy grave, I swear to God.

(�E��LE �L���ING)

(��N WHIS�LING)

(�E��LE �HEERING)

��N: What's your name? 127, what's your name?

�II right, �ory.

�INGL�FF: �ory? �ory? How's the knee?

Fuck the knee.

��RY: Look at us.

MAN ON PA: And the winner::: Fern Wadkins:

In third pIace, with 2,581 points, CharIene Benveniste:

In second pIace, with 4,639 points, Tory Skinner:

�his guy got so drunk at this party

that his friends caIIed a cab for him so he wouIdn't have to drive home.

So he's sitting in the back of the cab and...

(MUSIC PLA YING ON JUKEBOX)

''Hey?'' �he cab driver puIIs the window back and says,

''What do you want?'' �nd he goes,

''You got room up there for two six packs and a pizza?''

�he cab driver says, ''Sure.'' �nd the guy goes...

(RE��HING)

(GIRLS L�UGHING)

-Hey, �ory. -HeIIo, Duane.

DU�NE: You did a good job today. �ongratuIations.

-�hank you. -�ome on, Duane.

-W�I�RESS: �re you finished? -Yes.

-Hey, Rick. What's happening? -Roscoe, congratuIations.

-�nd you, you were reaIIy something. -�hank you.

RI�K: �h. �his is my daughter, �hris.

-Hi. -Hi.

WiII you excuse me?

RI�K: We're going right to the dorm.

I'II waIk. I don't have to get up tomorrow.

�II righty.

-�nyway, that was some performance. -�hank you.

(EXH�LES )

�h, come on, Roscoe, did you see that bimbo he was with?

I worked out for four years. So what?

Winning.

�h, boy.

WeII, Iike they say, ''It ain't everything.''

It ain't everything.

I'II teII you, winning is Iike sex.

Sometimes you think there's just got to be more.

Listen, buddy.

-Speak for yourseIf. -�h, yeah?

(�R�SHING)

What was that?

GIRL: �re you okay? �HRIS: Yes.

-�re you aII right? -�re you a friend of hers?

-Yes, I know her. -Yeah, I'm sorry.

-GIRL: I want to heIp. �an I do anything? -No.

-Let's go and sit down, okay? -I'm okay.

-You'II feeI better. -I'm aII right.

Look, Iet's go sit up here and sit down, pIease.

Here. �ut your head between your Iegs, pIease, and stay there.

I just didn't eat today. Listen, I want to pay for this.

R�S��E: Damn it, girI. Just keep it there for a minute.

�HRIS: It's okay. I'II be fine. ��RY: Which dorm are you in?

-�ean East. �ut, reaIIy, I'm fine. -��RY: �ome on.

R�S��E: So, you'II get her home? ��RY: I've got my car.

We're just down the street here.

So, you take care of yourseIf, you hear?

�hank you so much.

Hey, it's nothing.

-Great day, �ory. See you. -�hanks, Roscoe.

R�S��E: You take care.

�re you okay? �re you okay?

(��R ENGINE �R�NKING)

��RY: �he starter on this is totaIIy screwed.

(��RY SIGHING)

-Listen, congratuIations. -What for?

WeII, I watched your Iong jump today. It was...

It was great. �remendous height.

�hanks. �hank you.

(��R ENGINE �R�NKING)

I don't know, some days you reaIIy get into it,

and, I don't know, I guess you get Iucky.

�h, God, here.

You want some KIeenex to wipe up that sour cream and chive?

Here. I'II heIp you.

I'II put some on my pants if you want. You won't feeI so aIone.

(S���ING)

�h, heII. It hurts.

(�RYING)

I'm sorry.

(�HRIS L�UGHING)

��RY: Sorry about that, I'm not a very good hummer.

(��RY L�UGHING)

(��UGHING)

(��RY HU��ING)

-��RY: Don't smoke much? -No.

It's Iike a saiI.

Painting and Miss CIairoI: This I do for me:

The way it catches the Iight and the coIor:::

Miss CIairoI: This I do for me!

�HRIS: What's your boyfriend? ��RY: Duane?

�HRIS: �mm-hmm.

��RY: Not good enough.

(���H L�UGH)

�HRIS: Not good enough? ��RY: Yeah.

��RY: If the son of a bitch couId have cIeared 17'6'', we'd stiII be together.

(�HRIS �HU�KLES )

��RY: So, how Indian are you, anyway?

�HRIS: �retty Indian. ��RY: (�I�I�KING �HRIS ) �retty Indian?

��RY: WeII, how Indian is pretty Indian?

�HRIS: �h, good, there you are. Look at that.

��RY: �re you registered with the �I�? �ureau of Indian �ffairs?

�HRIS: I know what it is. Yeah. ��RY: No shit?

What did you spiII?

DrooIing aII over the pIace?

(��RY �EL�HING)

Excuse me.

�h, that's nothing.

What?

I'm not pointing, you goof.

-Give it a tug. -�ug?

Give it a tug.

(�HRIS F�R�S )

I wish you couId have seen your face.

�y teammate,

Debbie �eyton, she used to come up to me before every race

and give it a yank for Iuck.

-For Iuck? -For Iuck.

Get out.

�nyway, I watched you today, too.

-You did? -Yeah.

(L�UGHING) �hat must have been a depressing sight.

No. No. No. Your Iead Ieg is a IittIe straight.

�ut basicaIIy, you've got good technique.

�etter than anybody in that race today, even Laura.

(S��FFS ) Yeah. WeII, I couIdn't get my step.

�uIIshit. You had your step and Iost it.

What are you taIking about?

�t the fifth hurdIe, when you saw Laura.

-I didn't see Laura. -You saw her.

You definiteIy saw her.

�nd what's that supposed to mean?

It means Laura's very fast the Iast 40 meters.

-So? -You know it. Everybody knows it.

You saw her and you choked.

-What is this? -Who knows?

I'II bet your father is aIways saying you don't have any kiIIer instinct.

�m I right?

I thought so.

I'm right.

WeII, Iisten, I'II teII you one thing. I'm as competitive as you are.

(S��FFS ) �h, yeah?

Yeah.

�t what?

(��RY GIGGLES )

-Go ahead. Name it. -�rm wrestIing.

�rm wrestIing?

Yeah. I've got two brothers, and I can beat them both.

-I'd Iike to see those two brothers. -No, you wouIdn't.

-�ut that's not what we're taIking about. -�h, weII, what are we taIking about?

-�rm wrestIing. -�h, yeah.

Listen, are we gonna do this or not?

�ecause if we do, I'm going to whip your ass.

-�kay. Whip my ass. -I pIan to.

-So, how do we do this? -�n the fIoor.

I know that.

Which arm?

You have two choices.

�kay.

Whoa !

Serious here.

�nytime you're ready.

(�RE��HING HE� VILY)

Shit.

(�RE��HING HE� VILY)

God.

(GRUN�S )

(GRUN�S )

(��RY GRUN�S )

I got �ontreaI in two weeks, and I don't wanna break my fucking arms.

Let's quit on the count of three, okay?

�kay?

�ne, two, three.

�HRIS: �h. You cheater.

(�HRIS SIGHING)

Sore Ioser, huh?

�h, God. I take it back.

You're tough.

�ough.

So, what did he say to you after the race?

�y dad?

He stared at his stopwatch and toId me I forgot my warm-up shoes.

Sometimes, when you know someone,

it keeps you from knowing something about them

that a totaI stranger wouId see right away.

If I couId have been anyone in that race today,

I'd have been you.

Why?

�ecause you can be great.

I've just been thinking my whoIe Iife is over.

I mean, everything I've worked for up to now.

�uIIshit. You couId go to �oscow in '80.

You've got everything.

Speed, strength, fIexibiIity.

Everything I aIways wanted, you've got.

If I had what you have, I'd...

�h, fuck.

What's wrong?

(WHIS�ERING) I'm very fucking scared right now.

Very scared.

Why?

-What are you thinking? -I don't know.

What if I try it again?

(�HU�KLES ) I don't know.

��RY: Not bad.

I used to get paid for this.

For what?

�ickIing.

�y dad and my brothers used to pay me a nickeI an arm,

a dime a Ieg

and a quarter a back.

�nd you're not retired?

I bet my brothers wouId have caIIed you the same thing they caIIed me.

-�nd what's that? -� carpenter's dream.

� carpenter's dream?

FIat as a board and easy to naiI.

-How did you do that? -�h, it was easy.

Gee, I've never been hurt.

-�II right. It's my turn. -�kay.

�h, this feeIs pretty good.

(��RY �HU�KLING)

I don't think I've ever had this done before.

(�IRES SQUE�LING)

�HRIS: Get those guys.

�HRIS: �en points if you can get 'em. ��RY: (L�UGHING) �II right.

(MUSIC PLA YING ON CAR RADIO)

(�IRES S�REE�HING)

(���H L�UGHING)

Grab that for me? So when we Iooked down the aisIe,

we went aII green.

�HRIS: �h, �hrist, I gotta caII my father. ��RY: What for?

�HRIS: I toId him I'd caII him when we got to San Luis.

��RY: �h, what's he gonna do? Give you your workout over the phone?

��RY: WiII you Iisten to me?

�HRIS: Uh-huh.

��RY: What are you worried about? �ingIoff or your father?

�HRIS: WeII, you know. I mean, �ingIoff's �ingIoff.

I mean, why wouId he wanna coach me?

��RY: �ecause I say so.

�HRIS: �h, come on. ��RY: No, you come on.

��RY: You're good. �ingIoff's a good coach. He'II see that.

It's no big deaI.

�HRIS: I'm not so sure.

��RY: �h, you're not so sure about anything, you big chicken.

Hey, Iisten to me. Did you ever meet my sidekick?

(���H L�UGHING)

�HRIS: Hey!

MAN ON TV: On the finaI turn, Anita Weiss of East Germany,

GIuth of East Germany, Shtereva of:::

RI�K: Just because he's good for your friend, �ory Skinner,

doesn't mean he's good for you.

You think he's a better coach than your father?

Rita, shut up.

If he was or wasn't, you wouIdn't know the difference.

Now what's he going to offer you? FuII tuition? HaIf? What?

Nothing.

(�U�LERY �L���ERING)

Rita.

Nothing?

Nothing?

I guess �ingIoff isn't that good for �ory Skinner.

She didn't make the first 10.

Yeah. I guess she's onIy the 1 1th best pentathIete in the worId.

(GRUN�ING)

�INGL�FF: Hey, �ac.

Hey, �ac.

�hese girIs have to warm up, you know what I mean?

(ZENK GRUN�ING)

Zenk's got a few more throws. I'm waiting for him.

Yeah. WeII, why don't you wait down there and give Zenk some encouragement?

(SIGHING)

�kay, �ory. Now you were gonna teII me aII about LittIe �rphan �nnie over there.

-Yeah, she's... She's... -She's what? Down on her Iuck?

Since when is another athIete's performance so important to you, huh?

Since when?

She's better than you think.

�ome on, �ory. I was at the triaIs.

I saw her. She ran the hurdIes, right?

-Yeah. -Yeah.

No speed, no guts.

So,

how come a third-rate hurdIer matters so much?

She's better than that.

�kay. She's second-rate. Now what?

You're wrong.

What makes you such an expert about this girI?

You.

You reaIIy think you got my number.

Don't you?

Yeah.

�kay.

�kay, she can work out with the team, but I am not going to coach her.

I swear sometimes I couId just kiII you.

I'm stiII not going to coach her. Get out of here.

Everybody's gonna think I'm a totaI pussy as it is.

WeII, you are.

I probabIy am.

-What happened? -��RY: �ome on, kid. You're in.

ReaIIy? �II right.

(IT'S OVER �L� YING �N ���E)

No, no, no. You're a speed jumper, God damn it.

You acceIerate through the jump.

It's your Iast three steps, okay?

�HRIS: Sorry.

�INGL�FF: Does she go everywhere with her?

Yeah.

�ory meets �hris...

�INGL�FF: Yeah. �nd teII her to take the oIive out of her ass.

R�S��E: �ome on, one more.

-�ome on. -�INGL�FF: �ory. Forget it.

It's not going to do you or her any good.

-�INGL�FF: Young Iove. �oy, oh, boy. -�an.

�INGL�FF: Not a bad jump. Why didn't you finish it?

��RY: What about it? Show me, show me.

You're the coach.

Like that? �h. �kay.

��RY: I see. �kay. I guess I shouId have Ianded Iike that.

�aybe...

�II right. You're in for it.

�INGL�FF: �h, no. �ime out. �Iease.

I quit. You're gonna hurt me. Don't hurt me. Don't...

(�INGL�FF L�UGHING)

�INGL�FF: You've got it. You're the boss. ��RY: �kay.

TINGLOFF: Tanya, put up seven: TANYA: Okay:

Let's get this show on the road. We Iose the track in 10 minutes.

Hey, �hris?

�HRIS: Yes, �r. �ingIoff?

-�INGL�FF: �ouId you get the bIocks? -�he bIocks?

�INGL�FF: Yeah, it's getting Iate.

�hat reaIIy sucks.

What?

�hat's probabIy the first thing you've said to her in two months.

�rying to make her feeI Iike a piece of shit?

�f course not.

�hen give her a Iane and Iet her run the triaI.

(S��FFING) What for? I toId...

�ecause I'm asking you to.

�ecause you've behaved very badIy.

�hris? Why don't you take that open Iane?

�HRIS: �e?

Yes. You.

�HRIS: Which open Iane?

�ny open Iane, God damn it.

�II right, peopIe...

-What do I do... -R�S��E: Just put it down, baby.

R�S��E: You can't run with it. �INGL�FF: I'II take �ory.

�enny, you get �am. �aureen, take �rish.

�nd �anya, get �ooch.

��RY: We don't have a watch on �hris. What about �hris?

Don't worry about it.

�ome on. Get your sweatshirt off. Let's go.

�INGL�FF: Ready?

(SH�U�ING) �hris didn't put her bIocks down.

�ome on, babe, get your bIocks.

�INGL�FF: How about it?

�ake your time, babe. We'II wait.

�INGL�FF: �ome on. �ome on. We're out of here in 10 minutes.

I'm ready. I'm ready.

�II right, stand up.

Runners, to your mark.

Get set...

(GUN FIRES )

�y God, she fainted.

Jesus, Iook at her go.

GIRL: Shit, she's fast.

Shit, fuck, piss! Goddamn son of a bitch.

You aII right?

�h, yeah, I'm such a dingbat.

I forgot to tighten the rear bIock. �h.

�h, �r. �ingIoff. Look, I'm sorry.

I know I can do better if you couId just give me another chance.

You ought to faII on your face more often.

See? I toId you, you'd do great.

-Hey, �erry, what was my time? -You okay?

It was beautifuI. You aII right? �re you aII right? �hat was beautifuI.

-WeII done, kiddo. -�Iocked you to 10.3. You were terrific.

�kay.

R�S��E: �aII it. W���N: Heads.

(WHA TA FOOL BELIEVES �L� YING)

(GIRLS �HEERING)

��UREEN: So, how was Norman?

��NY�: �ctuaIIy, he's got a curved weenie.

��UREEN: �o the Ieft or to the right?

-�o the Ieft. -�hat can be a probIem.

GIRL 1 : 7.7, 7.8. ��NY�: For a sprinter, maybe.

GIRL 2: No. 8.3, 8.5.

GIRL 1 : ReaIIy? GIRL 2: I'm sure he'II do it.

GIRL 2: WeII, it's possibIe. GIRL 1 : Guess so.

�ingIoff wants to see you when you're out of here.

�HRIS: What for?

I heard him teII Roscoe he wants to take her to the �apIe Leaf Games.

You're kidding?

�ut I haven't done anything since Eugene. �oronto is invitationaI.

�hat's what Roscoe said.

What did �ingIoff say?

He said, ''Don't worry about it.''

''Don't worry about it.'' What does that mean?

It means you got a coach, honey.

(GIRLS �HEERING)

GIRL 1 : �re you kidding?

�kay. Listen to this one.

Do you guys know why �rientaI men have sIanty eyes and buck teeth?

-GIRL: No. -No.

(GIRLS GIGGLING)

I don't get it.

(L�UGHING) She doesn't get it.

I don't.

I'II expIain it to you Iater. I'm getting out of here.

GIRL 1: Have you ever encountered this before?

GIRL 2: Never to the Ieft:

��N 1 : �ut pIease remember that at aII times

you are an ambassador of your country.

Sportsmanship and goodwiII on the fieId,

aduIt behavior off it.

�nd the host country is giving us its best.

Let's give them our bests.

��N 2: �kay. �aIi, �oIombia has a few more unexpected things to offer.

IncIuding �ontezuma's revenge.

So, girIs, how about not using Visine.

�nd no scented �ampax.

�ecause it might show up in the test.

�nd then...

-��RY: No men. -...no men.

Don't get caught with them in your room.

Have a nice day, Iadies.

�HRIS: When do we get to work out?

��RY: �s soon as this cow finishes shopping.

�HRIS: �h, shit.

HoId it, girIs. HoId it. HoId it right there.

Excuse me.

Excuse me. �ouId I have one of those?

(�E��LE �H���ERING)

-Jesus, I feeI Iike King Kong. -Imagine how I feeI.

-Hey, shouId you be eating that? -�h, it's okay. It's not water.

Yeah. It's got a skin. It's fine.

(FLUSHING)

-(�RYING) I'm burning up. -Here you go.

I know, I know.

-Hang on, they're there. -Just get me up, pIease.

(�HRIS �RIES ��INFULLY)

-�kay. �ome on. �ry to straighten up. -It hurts.

�HRIS: I can't straighten up. ��RY: �II right.

(�HRIS �RYING)

-�his is a doctor? -��NY�: �his is RaouI.

��RY: RaouI who?

��NY�: He's a medicaI student. We couIdn't find a doctor.

Wait a minute. He doesn't understand EngIish?

�ory. �ory.

We aII want what's best for her. Let him try, okay?

��RY: What's happening?

��NY�: He's checking for appendicitis or something.

(R��UL S�E�KING IN S��NISH)

�pium.

-��RY: �pium? -He wants her to smoke a IittIe bit.

What do you think he's trying to do?

��NY�: She's got food poisoning and cramps.

-It's going to reIax her. -It's fine.

�hey do that in EngIand aII the time.

It's true. �he opium stops the cramps.

��RY: �re you sure? SHEIL�: I'm not sure. �ut we've got to try.

(�HRIS GRUN�ING)

��RY: �kay. You guys better spIit.

�his isn't a party.

�kay.

�kay, you're gonna be fine. You're gonna be fine.

You're gonna be fine.

(��RY SIGHING)

What are you doing? What are you doing?

I'm just going to go Iie down for a minute.

No, pIease don't. �Iease don't.

�Iease don't. �Iease don't. �Iease don't Iet me go.

-�Iease don't. -�kay.

�kay.

�kay. �kay.

�hank you.

�hank you.

(MAN ANNOUNCING ON PA)

(�E��LE �HEERING)

(��RY GRUN�S )

Fuck.

Look, I don't care how you feeI.

You've got two more events, and you're going to finish.

No athIete of mine, unIess they've broken something, is going to DNF.

What kind of a score am I going to have after that?

-What does DNF mean to you? -It means not finishing.

�uIIshit. It means not caring.

It means not caring about yourseIf or anything.

It doesn't matter to me what you do, just as Iong as you don't quit.

You don't want to finish, I don't want to Iook at you.

Get out of here.

Get the fuck out of here.

(��RY S��S )

Look, it's my fauIt.

You're sick and she can't perform.

What is this shit? �y the way, you've got a race to run.

-�r are you going to bother? -Yes, I'm gonna bother.

�hen warm up.

(GUN FIRES )

(�E��LE �HEERING)

(GIRLS �HU�KLE)

(�HRIS EX �L�I�S EX �I�EDLY)

(�E��LE �H���ERING)

It was a good race.

I got you at 13.32.

You ought to get food poisoning more often.

�hank you, and fuck you.

What does that mean?

It means the way you handIed �ory was reaI chicken shit.

She's responsibIe for my performance today.

Not you. Not me. �ory.

WeII, be sure and congratuIate her, huh? She ran a heII of a race.

(IT'S OVER �L� YING)

(�E��LE �H���ERING)

(ZENK SINGING)

(MUSIC PLA YING)

(GIRL L�UGHING)

�INGL�FF: �ory? ��RY: (WHIS�ERING) �h, �hrist.

�INGL�FF: You guys, excuse us a minute, pIease.

-So, are you comfortabIe smoking that? -Sure. Want a hit?

Not reaIIy.

I don't Iike the way you're Iooking.

You better go to bed.

�h, come on, �erry, the meet's over. Lay off for once.

�kay. �kay.

Let me get �hris.

GIRL: �erry, come here.

��RY: Whoa !

-��RY: (WHIS�ERING) It's bedtime. -�edtime?

-�edtime. -What do you mean?

It's time to go to bed.

ReaIIy?

�II right. Hey, �ory, check this out. � Iady hurdIer.

��RY: Let go of me, bucko. ZENK: Hey, I'm sorry.

�hank you.

(WHI��ERS ) I'm sorry.

I know.

(MUSIC PLA YING ON TAPE)

Who's the Indian?

-Indian? -Yeah. Your mom or your dad?

�om.

Shoshone?

Keep going. Go ahead, keep going. Keep stretching.

-�h, shit. -Jesus. Easy. Easy. �h, �hrist.

Jeez. Easy. Easy. Easy. ReIax. ReIax, babe.

Just reIax, I've got you.

ReIax.

You stiII pissed?

�nyway,

how wouId you Iike a fuII ride next year?

Room, board, tuition, everything.

�re you kidding?

You'II have to stay here this summer with me.

Work out with me.

You think you can do that?

-WeII, sure. -Good.

�nd starting next year, I want you to do pentathIon.

What's wrong?

I don't think I can do that.

WeII, if you can't, you can't.

You've got speed, strength to body weight that's unreaI.

I misjudged it aII.

You know, �hris,

there's room for more than one in the country.

-�ne what? -�entathIete.

If �ory goes to the Games, that Ieaves room for two more.

I wasn't thinking about that.

-�f course you weren't. -I wasn't.

I'm agreeing with you.

You reaIIy think you know it aII, don't you?

No.

No. Like one thing I don't know,

I don't know what scares you more.

Getting beat by �ory Skinner or beating her?

�oscow in '80.

(��R D��R �L�SES )

(��R ENGINE S��R�ING)

�et I can make you drop that pIate.

Wanna bet?

No. �ome on, Ieave me aIone.

I toId you, �ingIoff had me Iate and the market was cIosed.

WeII, couIdn't you have managed?

What? �oId them that I had to get you some packing boxes?

Yeah. WeII, I had to seII our books and pick up the Iaundry

and make sure the phone wasn't disconnected since we're staying.

-What about Lucky's? -�hey didn't have any.

-�hey didn't have any? -�hat's right.

Lucky's didn't have any boxes of any kind?

Not empty ones.

(��RY SIGHING)

�kay, it does bother you.

I'II teII �ingIoff tomorrow.

I won't do pentathIon.

It doesn't mean that much to me. I swear it.

�hat doesn't bother me.

�aybe it's �ingIoff.

�aybe it's being stuck here for six weeks.

(WHIS�ERING) �aybe it's that you don't mean that.

I do mean it.

�ecause you know it's what I want.

�uIIshit.

We'II stay and work out, okay?

�kay?

�ome on.

�ome on.

(���H ��N�ING)

(MAN CHA TTERING ON RADIO)

(��RY SIGHING)

(�LL SINGING)

�kay. � knife, a knife. �o cut the cake.

Yeah. We better eat before we get sick.

I Iove it. It's great. It's just Iike yours. I Iove it. It's so neat.

WeII, not exactIy...

(GIRLS L�UGHING)

��RY: �h, I made her a pentathIon workout book.

�INGL�FF: �he high jump, Iong jump, 800 meters.

Five events. �ut the thing to remember is this.

�he pentathIon is one event.

(�INGL�FF GRUN�S )

(�INGL�FF ��UGHING)

-Not me, honey, the waII. -I know.

�INGL�FF: In the shot, you gotta feeI that you can tear a piece out of yourseIf.

Hey.

(�INGL�FF �HU�KLES )

�INGL�FF: Gotta feeI you're gonna expIode.

(GRUN�S )

TINGLOFF: The high jump

is a masochist's event:

It aIways ends on faiIure:

Just when you're reaIIy getting whipped,

you reach that event that caIIs for reckIess abandon:

You have to throw yourseIf through the air,

as fast and as far as you can:

(EXH�LING)

�hey didn't have swordfish, so I got haIibut, okay?

HaIibut? Sit down.

Look at this. Look.

(MUSIC PLA YING ON RADIO)

�HRIS: Look where I'm ranked. �ingIoff says I'm the best high jumper here.

I toId you so, kiddo.

I got some fish to fry.

�INGL�FF: I don't want you doing that. �kay, Iet's go.

If you're gonna change your workout, �ory, Iet me in on it.

��RY: �kay, one more. �ome on, reaI quick.

Up.

�h, good.

Good.

-What's that? -��RY: It's Iow reps, that's what I do.

I want her to taper.

-Fuck it. Let's go take a steam. -�HRIS: �kay.

�hris, just wait a minute for me, wiII you?

I mean, if it's aII right with �ory.

�II right, the �an �m Games are in 10 days.

It's the Iast internationaI competition before the �Iympics.

�nd furthermore, onIy two athIetes quaIify for the �an �m Games and �ory knows it.

What's that supposed to mean?

�ory is just trying to heIp.

I know. I know. �ut do me a favor.

Don't get any more heIp from her untiI after the �an �ms, okay?

ROSCOE: Look, these guys wiII teII you:

These guys wiII teII you different things about the 800:

Someone wiII say, ''As Iong as you run between 2:15, 2:20, that's okay, that's::: ''

Or 2:12 or 2:10:

It's the Iast fucking event:

-You gotta beat somebody by::: -GIRL: Hey, how's it going, you guys?

TINGLOFF: WeII, the 800 is the Iast event:

If you're even up in points, you'II have to beat somebody:::

MAN: There's no heII on earth Iike it if you gotta beat anybody:

You're going to have to be ready to kiII yourseIf:

TINGLOFF: You're going to have to run: MAN: It's the Iast event,

and you're going to have to run:

TINGLOFF: You're gonna have to run:

�INGL�FF: �h, yeah.

(L�UGHING)

You're never gonna make it.

(SH�U�ING) You're never gonna make it, paI.

You're gonna die.

�nother 70 meters, you're going to die.

(�INGL�FF L�UGHING)

Your Iegs are gonna go.

Yeah, they're going, they're going.

You're going to be JeII-�, man, JeII-�.

Hey, here she comes, man. She's right on your ass.

She's right on your ass.

Keep going. �ome on, keep going. Keep going. Keep going.

Keep going. �ush it. �ush it.

Uh-uh. �oo bad.

You just Iet a pussy beat you, you dumb asshoIe.

(�INGL�FF L�UGHING)

�HRIS: �ingIoff wants me to do squats. ��RY: So?

�HRIS: So, the squat rack is better at the men's gym.

��RY: If I'm at the women's gym, then who's gonna spot you?

�HRIS: �ingIoff. ��RY: �ingIoff? Wait a second.

��RY: �ingIoff? �HRIS: Yeah, �ingIoff.

-�h, isn't that nice? -Hi, guys.

Sure. I just...

Just don't understand why you get so angry.

I think you do.

-�h, God, can we just go work out? -Do whatever you want.

�hat's just it, I can't. I can't stop worrying about you.

What about me?

What you're thinking, what you think I think.

What you want. Everything. I don't know.

So?

You worry about what everybody thinks. Why shouId you be different with me?

-Hi. -GIRL: �ome on, you guys.

I guess I'm not.

�kay, there's onIy one thing Ieft to do, kiddo.

See other peopIe.

See other peopIe? What are you taIking about?

Look, either we're together or we're not together.

Jesus �hrist, �ory. We're friends.

Yeah, we may be friends,

but every once in a whiIe we aIso fuck each other.

Either you move out or I move out and we reaIIy are just friends.

No.

No?

�h, heII. Don't worry, we won't work out together.

No. �hat's not it.

I want to work out with you.

You make me feeI Iike I can do something, Iike I'm gonna do something.

�ore than �ingIoff.

I just...

What?

Need you.

Fuck this.

No.

�kay.

�kay.

I guess I can't argue with that.

Let's... Let's not do this to each other anymore, okay?

�ome on.

�ome on, Iet's get out of here.

�ome on, Iet's get out of here.

Wait a second.

(WHIS�ERING) �re you awake?

�re you awake?

�HRIS: What?

-What? -Nothing.

�ome on, what?

-What's bugging you? -I shouIdn't get into it.

-�ingIoff wiII just have another shit fit. -Don't give me that.

It'II drive me nuts for the rest of the day.

UnIess you're trying to drive me nuts.

Yeah, I'm trying to drive you nuts.

�ome on.

What?

�kay.

�ry an approach where you reaIIy Iower yourseIf, bigger steps.

Like you?

Not Iike me. You're the power jumper. You can take bigger steps.

Lower yourseIf. �atch your center of gravity on the rise.

See, I start here and you shouId start there.

�ry it sometime when we're not on such a shitty track.

�ome on.

Do you have to check and see if he's watching every time we taIk?

�II right. �II right.

-Don't do me any favors. -I'II try it.

Hey, forget it.

(�HRIS S�RE��ING)

(�RYING)

�ooch, grab that bag, grab her shouIder and hoId it.

Easy, honey, I've done this before.

�HRIS: Get away. Get...

(��NES �R��KS )

(�HRIS �RYING)

-What happened? -It's her knee. I popped it back.

I'II get some ice and an �ce bandage.

Don't you peopIe have a workout to finish? What about it, huh?

�INGL�FF: �kay, how did it happen?

I was just doing that three-step approach and...

(�HRIS SIGHING)

�nd I went to take off and my knee... I don't know, it just...

It just went.

�nd that's it?

WeII, yeah.

Is that your mark?

You know, jumping is a fairIy difficuIt, compIicated mentaI process.

�y comparison, counting to three is not so difficuIt.

�ne, two...

Now how in the fuck couId you have made a mistake Iike that?

She didn't. I did. I moved the mark.

You what?

I was showing her how to Iengthen her approach.

�h.

-�ny particuIar reason? -WeII, yeah. �o Iower her...

-�o Iower what? -Her center of gravity.

�o Iower her center of gravity?

She's got a Iong stride.

�ut that's too far.

I didn't mean for her to try it here on this shitty surface.

�h, then why did you move her mark here?

It was onIy a coupIe of inches. It was...

-I thought... -You thought what?

I mean, I...

-It couIdn't be that far. I... -I hope you understand aII this.

You know I wouId do anything to avoid hurting you.

�ouId you at Ieast Iook at me?

Damn it, don't pIay the dumb Indian with me now.

Don't Iet him do this to us.

Do what?

-What's he doing? -What did I do?

Spit it out for once in your Iife. Did I do this to you on purpose?

Did I? Did I?

Did I?

You're so fucking gutIess.

Do you have a fucking thought in your fucking head?

�y thought is that we're both better off with a dumb Indian.

-�Iease, don't... -No.

(GIRLS �H���ERING)

�ENNY: Whose fauIt? WeII, was it anybody's fauIt?

How is she?

-I guess so. -What did he say?

Is she okay? What'd �ingIoff say?

You saw him, didn't you? Is she okay?

-Is she aII right? -Shut up, �enny.

I just want to sit here and sweat a minute, aII right?

�kay.

�ENNY: Hey, �ooch? �ooch, ever smeII mothbaIIs?

����H: Sure.

(�HU�KLING) How did you get their IittIe Iegs apart?

Shut up, �enny.

Jeez.

(GIRL L�UGHING)

�INGL�FF: Ross just taIked to �ory.

She's waiting to hear if she shouId cIear out of your pIace.

�ome on, Iet's go.

Let's go.

What do you want to do, �hris?

(SNIFFLING)

�kay, you stay at my pIace tonight.

Is it stiII hurting?

�hen what is it?

What is it?

(S���ING) You're mad at me.

You dumb cunt.

How can you be more frightened of me than being hurt?

�ome on, come here. �ome here. �ome here. �ome here. �ome here.

Jesus. �kay. �II right.

(�HRIS �RYING)

(SHUSHING)

It's okay.

�kay. �II right.

�INGL�FF: Want a �epsi?

Dr �epper?

How about a beer?

Do you want a joint?

Haagen-Dazs ice cream?

�HRIS: You keep that in your house?

What fIavor?

�hocoIate, vaniIIa, coffee, rum raisin.

No strawberry?

Strawberry, too.

(�H�NE RINGING)

I'II get it. I'II get it.

Yeah?

No. No. She's a Iot better.

No, forget the bIocks. Light workout.

For sure. �kay.

Roscoe sends his best.

(�H�NE RINGING)

Let it ring. Let it ring. You don't have to answer my phone.

Here.

I'd just as soon not hear from anybody eIse tonight.

You know, it's been a Iong day.

Yeah, just Iet it ring.

�h, shit.

�II you're worried about is your fucking girIfriend.

What the fuck is that? Your fucking girIfriend.

She's crippIed you.

�h, God.

(�L�WING N�SE)

Excuse me.

�II right, one thing you gotta understand.

I couId have been a man's coach. �ackfieId coach, �regon State.

I had the job. I had the job. I actuaIIy had the job.

Do you know what I'm saying? I had the job.

�h, weII. �oach of the Year. I was �oach of the Year, Iast year.

You know what that means when you're a woman's coach?

Jack shit.

I mean, I couId've coached footbaII.

Do you actuaIIy think that �huck NoII has to worry

that Franco Harris is going to cry because �erry �radshaw won't taIk to him, hmm?

Jack Lambert can't pIay because �eI �Iount hurt his feeIings?

�hat Lynn Swann is pregnant?

�hat Rocky �Ieier forgot his �ampax?

�h, fuck.

I'm sorry. I...

I didn't mean to upset you.

Listen, she didn't mean it.

She didn't mean it.

You know what you're Iike?

�here's a joke about a faggot who makes a pass at a �arine

in the men's room on the 40th fIoor of the Empire State �uiIding.

�he �arine throws the faggot out the window.

�he �arine gets down to the street, passes the faggot in the gutter.

�he faggot gets up on one eIbow and says, ''Yoo-hoo, I'm not mad.''

So why don't you just go home?

Why don't you just go home, kiss, make up, eat each other.

Whatever the fuck you do.

I actuaIIy did it. WeII, why don't you hit me?

�e nice to see if you got the baIIs to...

�HRIS: �h, God. �h, shit.

(�INGL�FF ��UGHING)

Why do you aIways have to do what I teII you?

�HRIS: I'm sorry. �INGL�FF: No.

-I'II get some ice. -No, wait.

(�INGL�FF SIGHING �NGRILY)

I stiII think she didn't mean it.

�nd I stiII care about her.

WeII, I care about her, too.

(�HRIS WHI��ERS )

�h, shit.

Don't worry, babe, we'II watch the knee.

�f course we wiII.

�f course we wiII.

�nd make sure I have enough magnesium and caIcium.

Enough of whatever eIse you think I need.

(�INGL�FF SIGHING)

-What's that for? -�he pooI. �he swimming pooI.

You know you're gonna kick, you're gonna do that in water.

Use it.

I got it.

You asshoIe.

(��R ENGINE S��R�ING)

�hanks.

I'II make sure I'm out of the apartment

by the time you get back from the �an �ms.

-Yeah. WeII, you know I can... -No, I...

I want to make the move. I...

I want to Iive in a new pIace.

Sure. Fine. I wiII...

Yeah, sure.

(�HUDS )

(EX �L�I�S ��INFULLY)

-You aII right? -Yeah. Yeah.

�he fog is amazing.

I think they got it a IittIe overheated in here.

It was stiII dumb.

Yeah.

How come you swim and then Iift? �ren't you worried about getting tight?

Not reaIIy.

You know, if you're a swimmer,

you ought to stretch before doing that.

WeII, I gave up swimming a coupIe of years ago.

I'm pIaying poIo now.

Water poIo?

Yeah, water poIo.

In that case, you reaIIy ought to stretch.

In fact, you shouIdn't use that machine at aII.

Yeah?

-What wouId you suggest I use? -Free weights.

Free weights.

Yeah, free weights.

Yeah, it's better for fIexibiIity, coordination.

I'm not too sure about that.

Look.

You get a better range of motion.

�Ius, you gotta controI the bar.

You stiII don't see it?

WeII, no, I...

I understand.

It's just that I've got this job, and I can't Iift with the poIo team.

-What's that got to do with it? -�here's nobody to spot me.

�eII you what, you spot me and I'II spot you.

-What's wrong? -Nothing. Nothing.

You mean, right now? Sure. Sure.

-�hat was a five? -Yeah.

-Wanna go first? -No. No. You're there.

�kay.

Ready?

�mm-hmm.

�kay.

-�ren't you gonna... -�h, sorry.

�ne, two, three, up.

�kay.

You want to change them?

-�he weights? -�h. No, no, I'II warm up with these.

�kay.

-Is something wrong? -No. �kay.

�kay. �ne, two, three, up.

Don't arch your back. Don't arch your back.

�ome on. I'm right here. I'm right here.

�kay. Last one. Last one.

I said don't arch your back. �kay. �kay.

�kay, I got it.

�hat's for your shouIders and pecs, not your back.

-Won't heIp to cheat. -Yeah. �hanks.

-How you doing? -Hey, fine.

(�INGL�FF �H���ERING)

�INGL�FF: �nd make that four 100s, two 200s...

-You getting this down? -Yeah, I got it.

�kay, and then have them concentrate on the approach.

-�INGL�FF: How are you feeIing? -Ready to give it a try.

Good. Good.

Look, there's no point in mincing words.

I don't want you and �ory on the fieId at the same time.

Why not?

WeII, Iet's put it this way. I don't think you can handIe it.

�nything to say?

I work out with everybody eIse, or I don't work out at aII.

I'm too oId, too hurt and too tired to put up with this shit.

(SIGHING)

Ladies,

you want to work out, or do you want to watch?

If you want to watch, the bIeachers are empty.

Shit, fuck, piss! Goddamn son of a bitch.

(�E��LE �HEERING)

You Iet these guys come in, act Iike they're having a good time.

�hey're popping cork bottIes on the champagne and drinking beer.

(�H���ERING)

I toId you, don't pIay down to their IeveI.

�hen what do they do? �hey get in the pooI,

and they're kicking your ass.

��N 1 : Listen... �uddy, shut up.

����H: Here's what's gonna happen, guys.

�hey're probabIy gonna run a reverse pick to Stites.

(�H���ERING)

(�ELL �UZZING)

(WHIS�LING)

(�E��LE WH���ING)

(�ELL �UZZING)

(�H���ERING)

Great game. You're awfuI good Iosers.

-Hey, wait a minute. You Iike the game? -Yeah, I Iike the game.

�ut you never shouId have taken that Iast shot.

-You went to the right again. -Yeah. I know. I don't know why I did that.

�nd it's your shouIders. Your... Never mind.

Never mind? You're my expert. What do you mean, never mind?

�hen they puIIed me out of the pooI

and took me to some kind of recovery room, some tunneI.

�nd they had to deIay the ceremony haIf an hour.

-How did it feeI? -�h, terribIe. I couIdn't move.

No. I mean going to the Games, winning two goId medaIs?

(SIGHING) �wo goId medaIs.

I didn't mean the medaIs.

Uh.

Sort of waIked out there and they hung it around my neck

and pIayed the nationaI anthem.

�nd I do remember thinking, ''�his is it?

''�wenty thousand meters a day since I was 10, and this is it.''

�ny regrets?

No, not reaIIy.

WouId you Iie to me and teII me it was worth it if it wasn't?

I might.

No, no, I wouIdn't. It was worth it.

What about you? You gonna go to �oscow next summer?

You'II go.

What do you mean? You haven't even seen me.

I've seen peopIe compete. Sometimes you get hints,

even right away, about how they'II do.

Hints?

�enching 150. �hat's a hint.

W�I�ER: Is everything aII right here?

�mm-hmm.

Who is that?

She's just my roommate, Iast year.

I mean for the Iast three years, but not anymore.

Just drifted apart?

(L�UGHS )

Different majors?

(�HRIS L�UGHS )

I don't know preciseIy what happened.

-�hanks for Iunch. -Sure.

-WeII... -�hanks again.

�h, hey, thank you.

For what?

�h, for making me feeI Iike...

-Like what? -Like I'm not in a hurry.

Kind of Iazy. �hat's nice.

-See you. -See you.

�HRIS: Denny!

If you're not in a hurry, sIow down.

(DENNY L�UGHING)

�y God, girI, what is it?

What's gotten into you?

What's gotten into you?

-Is that aII? -(L�UGHING) �y God.

(L�UGHING) WeII, she's right. �Ithough...

(MAN CHA TTERING ON TV)

DENNY: �hat was a break for the �owboys.

�ffensive interference.

DENNY: �h, no.

�reston �earson pushed off. �oast's coming.

DENNY: �reston �earson never pushed off

-in his Iife. -�HRIS: �h, yeah?

He just goes out there and appears, and catches the pass and...

�reston �earson pushed off.

(L�UGHING)

-WeII, I'm sorry, you know. -You couIdn't even see that

-from back there. How did you... -Yes, I... Yes, I couId see that. I'm sorry.

What are you Iooking through my workout book for?

It's workouts. What? You got secret workouts?

Yeah. I mean, it's kind of private. You know...

-I don't even... -Forgive me. �he cover is nice.

Did you do that?

No, my roommate did it. Why?

It's nice. It has pretty yeIIow fIowers.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You're embarrassed about your roommate. Why?

Why?

(S��FFS )

Fine.

�wo greatest-Iooking girIs in San Luis �bispo.

It wasn't a secret.

Yeah, weII, what do you think about that?

I think we both Iike great-Iooking girIs.

Don't.

I don't care. I don't care. I don't care about any of that.

I just...

Whatever happens, I just want to beIieve what you teII me, that's aII.

�kay?

�kay?

�kay.

�here's nothing to teII.

We don't see each other anymore, ever.

Not ever?

�HRIS: Listen. Don't you have a Iunch to be at?

I mean, I think I recaII you saying that you had a Iunch date.

-WeII... -With a smaII...

LittIe Laurie, right.

-�ut her sister is here from... -�h, her sister.

-From �akersfieId. -�wo greatest-Iooking girIs

from �akersfieId.

(�HRIS L�UGHING)

-�an you wait here? -What for?

I got to go to the john, for one thing.

-�re you going to pee? -Yeah.

�h, good.

�ome on.

�hris, what are you doing?

-What are you doing? -�ome on.

-�ome on. -What is...

I want to hoId it.

-(L�UGHS NERV�USLY) Wait a minute. -�ome on.

I've aIways wanted to pee standing up. �ome on.

DENNY: (L�UGHING NERV�USLY) �hris, see, I don't... Now, come on.

�HRIS: Yes, you can.

DENNY: (SIGHING) No, I can't.

I know you can do it. It wiII mean a Iot to me.

�HRIS: �m I aiming right?

DENNY: I guess so.

�HRIS: �kay.

DENNY: �hris, I can't do this. I'm trying, but I can't do this.

�his isn't gonna work.

�HRIS: �f course it is.

Just do this.

(W��ER RUNNING)

�hanks. Everything is aII right now.

(��ND �L� YING)

�INGL�FF: What's the matter? �he boycott make you Iose interest in aII this?

You need a medaI, �hris? Is that it?

I'm Iistening.

RICK ON PHONE: We think about you aII the time:

And we're reaI proud of you, honey, reaI proud of you: You know that:

-�hank you. -Oh, weII, you know,

this is not reaIIy easy for me to say,

but you were right about TingIoff being the coach for you: He reaIIy is:

�h, Daddy.

WeII, your ma and I wiII be Iooking out for you tomorrow: You know that:

You're not thinking, are you?

�kay.

�wo heats for the hurdIes.

You're in with �ooch.

-Hi, WiIIie Lee. �ooch. -WILLIE: Hi.

-����H: Hi. -How are you?

You have to own the hurdIes.

It's your event.

You know it, they know it.

If you go, say, 13.35 or better, you've got an edge.

If not, it'II be uphiII aII the way. Look at me.

-I said, Iook at me. -Let go of my arm.

You're not going to say a word to her.

�he day you run my race, you run my Iife.

�nyone ever teII you you're a manipuIative, sadistic creep?

Not in so many words, no.

Do I get my turn?

(WHIS�ERING) Look around you, Iook at everybody.

Now imagine how many bodies you aII buried to get here.

�he Games. �he javeIin, the discus, the shot, they're weapons.

Don't kid yourseIf. You're here to kiII anybody

that gets in your way, and aII the rest is buIIshit.

You get up from this tabIe now, you're on your own.

(SIGHING)

I just wanted to say good Iuck tomorrow.

�hanks. You feeI good?

Sure. How do you feeI?

Sure.

(�HRIS �HU�KLES )

WeII...

Yeah.

I'II see you there tomorrow.

(MAN ANNOUNCING ON PA)

MAN ON PA: ::: 13:35:

Coming up on the track,

the second heat pentathIon 100-meter hurdIes:

Lane two, Tory Skinner:

Lane three, CharIene Benveniste:

Lane four, Pooch Anderson:

(�E��LE �L���ING)

MAN 1 ON RADIO: It is Pooch Anderson and Tory Skinner:

Pooch Anderson moves out in front:

Skinner chases her: It is Anderson and Skinner:

The Iean at the tape: It is Pooch Anderson, the winner:

Tory Skinner is second:

-�hat was awesome. -��N: What's your name?

-�nderson. -Skinner.

It sounded Iike somebody hit a hurdIe.

-Somebody did. -Who?

-Who? -�hris.

Sure?

�hris?

Yeah, she hit the third hurdIe. She's right there.

-�re you okay? -Yeah.

��RY: �re you sure?

MAN 2 ON RADIO: She missed her step, she hit a hurdIe,

and you Iose a Iot of points:

MAN 1 ON RADIO: Pooch Anderson's time is at 13:29:

So the standings after first of five events, Pooch Anderson is in front:

Fern Wadkins, who had a 13:37 in the first heat,

but was Iimping at the end, is second:

Tory Skinner is third, Pam Burnside is fourth:

And Chris CahiII a disappointing fifth: She is 69 points back:

(�E��LE �L���ING)

(GRUN�ING)

(GRUN�ING)

MAN ON PA: That's a fouI for CahiII on her third attempt:

MAN 1 ON RADIO: Oh, that's another fouI in the shot put for Chris CahiII:

MAN 2 ON RADIO: CharIie, you have to put your mistakes behind you in this event

and think about the next event:

And I think Chris CahiII stiII has her mind on the hurdIes:

MAN 1 ON RADIO: But what about Pooch Anderson? A PR of 45:07:

She is soIidIy in first pIace:

MAN 2 ON RADIO: And the first two events are her weak events:

Her strong events are coming up: She may make this a runaway:

MAN 1 ON RADIO: So, after two of five events in the pentathIon,

Pooch Anderson in first:

The experience of Fern Wadkins, she hoIds on to second:

Tory Skinner is in third:

CharIene Benveniste at 6'1'' and 1 75 pounds,

the biggest athIete in the competition, she has a PR of 51:6 in the shot put:

She moves up to fourth:

Pam Burnside, the 1 7-year-oId high schooIer,

she is in fifth: And Chris CahiII has now dropped down to sixth:

(MAN ANNOUNCING ON PA)

��N: Your brother wants to see you.

�y brother?

MAN 1 ON RADIO: I'm Iooking forward to Edwin Moses:

He's coming up next in the 400-meter hurdIes:

MAN 2 ON RADIO: WeII, he is so good I think,

if I were a hurdIer, I'd find another event:

(�E��LE �L���ING)

�rack!

What are you gonna do with this?

I hit a hurdIe.

FouIed in the shot put.

I guess I've bIown it.

You don't know that.

I had a fight with my coach.

He is...

�aybe he's right.

�bout what?

KiIIer instinct or whatever.

I think right now you just need to

remember to Iook back over your right shouIder.

Give you about three more inches of arch.

You've been taIking to that bastard.

Him and his ''whip everybody's ass.''

Hey, couId you beat Zenk in the shot?

-�h, come on. -�ouId you?

WeII, you're not responsibIe for how good he is

or how much better you are than anybody eIse.

�oIor of your eyes.

�II you're responsibIe for is being a IittIe bit better today

than you were yesterday, day before.

�II you're trying to do is whip your own ass.

�hat's about it.

Give it a try. Hey.

�oday I won that 1,500.

I missed two waIIs.

�ut...

Yeah, you and waIIs.

MAN 1 ON RADIO: Next up in the high jump wiII be CharIene Benveniste:

The bar at 1:83:

At 6 feet even, if she cIears it, it wouId be a personaI best:

She's been training in Germany, from the University of Indiana:

And she's got it:

CharIene Benveniste, over the bar at 6 feet:

AII right:

MAN 2 ON RADIO: And she doesn't reaIIy beIieve it,

but it's true:

(�E��LE �L���ING)

MAN 1 ON RADIO: The happiness of the high jump:

The onIy jumper Ieft in the competition, Chris CahiII:

The bar now at 6 foot, three and a quarter: That's 1:85:

MAN 2 ON RADIO: Showing a IittIe fIexibiIity there:

MAN 1 ON RADIO: And she cIears: That's a PR by seven centimeters:

AImost 3 inches:

CahiII wiII move up in the competition:

(�E��LE �HEERING)

MAN 2 ON RADIO: NearIy fIawIess:

Except she hit the bar with her caIf coming down,

but it didn't drop: LegaI jump: And she can't beIieve it:

MAN 1 ON RADIO: And remember, when we heard about the knee injury

that she had in training, it was on this event:

MAN ON PA: Competition in the pentathIon Iong jump has been deIayed:

MAN 1 ON RADIO: Frank, the rain has arrived here in Eugene, Oregon,

so we've got a deIay in the Iong jump:

Pooch Anderson, she did have a good jump,

though, soIidIy in first pIace:

MAN 2 ON RADIO: But she was very Iucky:

She got her jump in before it started to rain:

She's a speed jumper: She may have been in troubIe if she'd had a wet runway:

MAN 1 ON RADIO: Chris CahiII, she had her PR in the high jump,

and she picked up more than 100 points on the fieId:

Then came right back with another PR in the Iong jump of 21:8:

MAN 2 ON RADIO: That's what's so interesting about the pentathIon is that

you can have someone who faIIs down at the beginning, reaIIy,

as she did in the hurdIes:

And then she comes back with personaI records,

and now she is soIidIy in second pIace:::

(RUS�LING)

MAN 1 ON RADIO: CharIene Benveniste, her Iong jump was 19: 10,

a IittIe beIow her standard:

MAN 2 ON RADIO: But she wasn't expecting to do that weII,

because she's onIy jumped a IittIe over 20 feet:

I think, the reaI story is whether or not Tory Skinner can catch her:

MAN ON PA: Ed Tennant to the Iong jump pit:

Ed Tennant report to the Iong jump pit, pIease:

MAN 1 ON RADIO: AII right, here is Tory Skinner:

The rain now has stopped, but the runway is stiII very sIick:

MAN 2 ON RADIO: And I can't heIp but think

she's gonna have it in the back of her mind that the runway is wet,

because she is a speed jumper and it is dangerous:

She has a chance of catching CharIene Benveniste

because she can jump about a foot further than CharIene:

MAN 1 ON RADIO: AII right: Here's Tory Skinner:

This is the fourth of five events in the pentathIon:

MAN 2 ON RADIO: Look how her feet seem to be sIipping as she's coming down:

MAN 1 ON RADIO: Good height:

Distance is not that good:

MAN 2 ON RADIO: No: She had good extension and good height,

but she didn't have the speed: It didn't carry her far enough:

MAN 1 ON RADIO: Her distance, 20'1'':

So that means, with now onIy the 800 meters remaining,

Pooch Anderson is in first pIace,

Chris CahiII is in second pIace, right behind her:

Yes, and the reaI battIe is for third pIace now:

MAN 1 ON RADIO: CharIene Benveniste is in third pIace,

but Tory Skinner is now onIy five points behind her:

MAN 2 ON RADIO: CharIene Benveniste, though she is a very Iarge woman,

actuaIIy has a better time in the 800 meters than Tory:

So Tory is going to have to beat CharIene

by at Ieast four meters if she's going to make the team:

-Lee, what was it? �he Iong jump? -What was what?

�ory.

Her knee hyper-extended. �here's a IittIe sweIIing,

but nothing major.

WeII, can she run?

WeII, she says she doesn't want to. Excuse me.

Hey, just happened to be in the neighborhood.

Hey, weII, usuaIIy I Iike peopIe to phone before they come.

-�nyway, you want an orange? -No, thanks.

How about a piece of ice to chew on?

How about a Iude?

I watched your Iong jump today. It was reaIIy great.

You finaIIy got that extension at the end.

-�harIene's gonna go out fast. -No shit.

She knows I have to beat her by four meters.

So she is reaIIy going to push my knee.

Yeah. WeII, she's not going to go any faster than me.

She's got no kick. She'II die.

So wiII you. Don't do it.

You've got it made. Don't do anybody any favors.

(�HRIS SIGHING)

So the knee bother you that much?

Does it?

-Hey. -Does it? Does it?

-Does it bother you that much? -Listen.

-Does it? -Listen.

Look, there was a time that I just...

-Just what? -Just...

Just...

It's weird.

For years you Iive by the cIock, two-twenties, three-thirties, four-forties.

�nd there's never enough time.

�nd suddenIy you reaIize,

you have aII the time in the worId.

Forget it. Just fuck it.

You've got a race to run, don't you?

You're not hurt that bad. You can run.

�h, yeah? Do you know how hurt I am?

I know exactIy how hurt you are.

You can do it. You can run your race.

�nd if you can do it, you have to do it.

Why? Why do I have to?

(��RY �RYING)

�ecause that's what you are.

You have to. You have to.

�oscow or no �oscow. �ecause that's what you are.

You got to get off your ass and do it, okay?

MAN ON PA: AII participants in the women's 800 meter pentathIon:

-Report to the cIerk, gate 4 7: -�his is it.

See you in a minute.

MAN 1 ON RADIO: We're ready now for the 800 meters,

the finaI event of the pentathIon:

The weather has cIeared, the track is dry, it has cooIed off: Perfect conditions:

And, CharIie, there are two races within this race:

The first race is obviousIy to make the OIympic team:

And CharIene Benveniste and Tory Skinner are virtuaIIy tied:

They're reaIIy gonna have to watch each other:

Tory's gonna have to beat CharIene if she wants to make the team:

The second race is between Pooch Anderson and Chris CahiII:

Chris is a better 800 meter runner:

She couId actuaIIy beat Pooch Anderson and win this event:

��N: �ake your marks and set. �t that time, I'd Iike to have...

MAN ON PA: Down on the infieId, pIease, for the 800 meter pentathIon:

MAN 1 ON RADIO: Here are the Iane assignments:

CharIene Benveniste, currentIy in third pIace, is in Iane one:

In Iane two is Pam Burnside, the 1 7 year-oId high schooIer:

In Iane three, Debbie FIoyd of Texas A&M:

�FFI�I�L: Good Iuck.

In Iane four, Chris CahiII: She is in second pIace:

MAN ON PA: In women's high jump, Garrison has missed:::

MAN 1 ON RADIO: In Iane five, from BerkeIey, is Kim Stone:

In Iane six, Pooch Anderson:

She's been Ieading throughout the competition:

And in Iane seven is Tory Skinner: She's in fourth pIace:

Eight hundred meters, this is two Iaps around the 400-meter track:

Gun is up:

(GUN FIRES )

(�E��LE �HEERING)

And it's a fair start:

Chris CahiII, going out very quickIy:

And going right with her is CharIene Benveniste:

So it is CahiII and Benveniste taking the earIy Iead:

MAN 2 ON RADIO: And CharIie, you wouId think

that Chris CahiII wouId run conservativeIy

and just try to make the OIympic team:

The onIy thing I can think of is that, for these runners, this is Moscow:

There wiII be no OIympic games, and she's trying to win the event:

MAN 1 ON RADIO: It is Chris CahiII and CharIene Benveniste

down the back stretch:

MAN 2 ON RADIO: CharIene tried to go by,

but Chris didn't Iet her get that necessary step:

MAN 1 ON RADIO: And dropping back just a bit,

setting their own pace, Pooch Anderson and Tory Skinner:

�INGL�FF: 28, 29, 30.

29?

(MAN ANNOUNCING ON PA)

MAN 2 ON RADIO: The 200 meters for 29 seconds:

That's as fast as the 800-meter women go, the speciaIists:

So they're reaIIy going out fast:

MAN 1 ON RADIO: Chris CahiII on the inside, Benveniste on the outside:

And Benveniste has been running on the right shouIder of CahiII

throughout the race:

MAN 2 ON RADIO: And this reaIIy is a disadvantage:

She's running further:

She's gotta run three or four meters further per Iap:

A IittIe jostIing there: Some eIbowing:

CharIene Benveniste must get around her and ahead before she can cut in:

MAN 1 ON RADIO: CahiII and Benveniste now have broken contact

with Pooch Anderson and Tory Skinner:

BeII Iap, one to go:

MAN 2 ON RADIO: Fifty-nine seconds: That's incredibIe:

I don't think they can hoId it to the end:

It's just a question now of how much they've got

and how much they sIow down:

CharIene Benveniste, stiII trying to hang on:

(�E��LE �L���ING RHY�H�I��LLY)

Tory Skinner, running a very smart first Iap:

She was about 65 seconds, she's beginning to gain:

StiII on the outside, Chris CahiII stiII hoIding her:

But here comes Tory Skinner:

MAN 1 ON RADIO: Pooch Anderson and Tory Skinner cIosing on the Ieaders,

CahiII and Benveniste:

MAN 2 ON RADIO: And they'II aII be together when they come off the turn:

MAN 1 ON RADIO: It is stiII Chris CahiII and Benveniste:

Anderson cIosing, as is Skinner:

Tory Skinner behind, and she has to catch Benveniste

if she is to make the U:S: OIympic team:

And Tory Skinner has got herseIf in a box

with CahiII and Benveniste out in front

and Pooch Anderson on her right shouIder:

MAN 2 ON RADIO: And Tory Skinner reaIIy is boxed: Pooch is going by:

Tory stiII boxed:

MAN 1 ON RADIO: Tory Skinner hits the opening, and she goes through:

MAN 2 ON RADIO: There doesn't seem to be any fouI:

And it Iooks Iike she's going to win this race:

MAN 1 ON RADIO: It is Tory Skinner out in front:

And it's Tory Skinner beating Pooch Anderson to the tape:

Tory Skinner winning the 800 meter:

(�E��LE �HEERING)

And here comes Chris CahiII:

And she wiII finish behind Debbie FIoyd:

And then comes fifth pIace, CharIene Benveniste:

Tory Skinner beating Benveniste by more than four meters:

(���H ��N�ING)

-What's your name? What's your name? -��RY: �ahiII. �ahiII. Get away.

�re you aII right? �re you aII right?

�HRIS: �ory? ��RY: Let's get out of here.

MAN 1 ON RADIO: Does that mean that the U:S: OIympic team

consists of Pooch Anderson, Chris CahiII and Tory Skinner?

And with the boycott at Moscow,

they are aII dressed up with nowhere to go:

WeII, what do you think?

WeII, he's awfuI cute.

For a guy.

�re you shitting me?

Hey!

(�E��LE �HEERING)

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