TOKYO — The 400-meter hurdles field had just settled into the starting blocks at Olympic Stadium on a brutally hot early Tuesday afternoon. Norway’s Karsten Warhold, the World champion and pre-race co-favorite, nervously shrugged his shoulders twice and then turned to his left, looking back at Team USA’s Rai Benjamin, the other co-favorite, one lane […]

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