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Indeed, the celebrated 14th-century Persian pahlavan Maḥmūd Khwārezmī was both. Contests for runners and jumpers were to be found across the length and breadth of the continent. During the age of imperialism, explorers and colonizers were often astonished by the prowess of these “primitive” peoples. Nandi runners of Kenya’s Rift Valley seemed to run distances effortlessly at a pace that brought European runners to pitiable physical collapse.
- Kafka and Daboll will continue to make it a part of the Giants’ weekly game plan to utilize Jones’ prowess with his legs.
- He will also start this year healthy, which he didn’t a year ago due to his shoulder surgery.
- Athletes trained systematically to achieve their physical maximum.
- Calisthenic exercises designed to improve health and fitness were dull and dreary compared with the excitement of modern sports.
— South Carolina tailback MarShawn Lloyd wasn’t expecting much stadium atmosphere Thursday night. He and …