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Eamonn Coghlan: Finishing the Race
If the International Olympic Committee were to award a medal for sheer determination, the gold would almost certainly go to Eamonn Coghlan of Ireland. Coghlan, a track standout at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, U.S., made his first Olympic appearance at the 1976 Games in Montreal, when he comfortably led the field in the 1,500-metre race. In the final lap, however, he slowly fell behind, overtaken by New Zealander John Walker, Belgian Ivo Van Damme, and German Paul-Heinz Wellmann. Coghlan laboured to keep up and finished only a metre behind Walker—but still in fourth place. At the 1980 Games in Moscow, ...(100 of 365 words)