text:  like lying on pins. I think it takes a lot of the joy out of it, and I think it also takes a lot of the edge off people's competition. We won't mention any particular people, but I know a lot of great athletes who've left their running on the training ground. As the son of a Jewish immigrant, Howard was an outsider in the aristocratic world of athletics and felt he had something to prove. I attached so much importance to my athletics as a means of demonstrating...