PROVO, Utah — The walls and shelves inside the office of Ed Eyestone are one expansive homage to his life’s work. At this summer’s Olympic men’s marathon in Paris on Saturday, three of the 84 runners are former Cougars: American duo Conner Mantz and Clayton Young — who went 1-2 at the U.S. Olympic marathon trials in Orlando, Fla., in …
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To watch Simone Biles soar so high off the vault table that she nearly kisses the sky, twisting and flipping an absurd number of times before gravity peevishly reclaims her, is to wonder if your eyes truly saw things your brain insists can’t possibly have happened. “We were like, ‘Okay, if we could get a name, yes, we’ll do four,’ …