SAINT-DENIS, France — Quincy Hall’s kick feels like a fight against an invisible foe. Against the pain of a grueling lap. Against the will of his opponents. Against the hovering bubble of obscurity in which he’s been embedded.
But Hall wants that smoke. He lives for it. He strains and punches and grimaces not because he’s at his limits, but because his body is responding to his mindset. All his life, he had to fight. So when he came out of the final turn in the men’s 400 meters, in fourth place, looking in trouble, he knew victory was his. Because he is convinced, always, he’s got the most fight
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