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hurdlingTrack-and-field event, a footrace over a series of obstacles called hurdles. Runners must remain in assigned lanes throughout a race, and, though they may knock hurdles down while running over them, they may do so only with a leg or foot, not a hand. Modern hurdlers use a sprinting style between hurdles, display an exaggerated forward lean while clearing the hurdle, and then bring the trailing leg through at nearly a right angle to the body, which enables them to continue forward without breaking stride after clearing the hurdle. Hurdling distances are 110 m and 400 m for men and 100 m and 400 m for women. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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On Friday night, 110 hurdlers Allen Johnson, Dominique Arnold and Terrence Trammell posted the three fastest times in the world this year. Many hurdlers fail to succeed because of their inability or lack of strength to remain high on the balls of the feet. Cut down to size by distance, always consigned for everybody's safety to outer fields far from hurdlers, sprinters, vaulters, quartermilers who - unlike us who put the shot or spin the discus - disavow the soul's existence. |
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