And Nike knew how to market that appeal -- with an ad in 2011 that showed the sprinter starting from blocks and the caption "I am the bullet in the chamber" together with Nike's "Just do it" slogan and logo.
Now low blocks delivered from in front of the defender anywhere on the field are legal and low blocks from the side or back are not.
"Nobody's here, and I keep calling and there's no ambulance, " one woman told a 911 dispatcher from her condominium a few blocks from the crash site.
And South Africa's first-innings centurion Jacques Kallis called on his team-mates to spring from the blocks.
We kept walking, and filed a story from two blocks north of the burning building.
On September 11, 2001, Kathryn Freed watched from two blocks away as a plane hit the World Trade Center's north tower.
It's a fairly standard suburban house from the outside, a few blocks from the base of the hill that holds the University of Santa Cruz.
Ocean Energy brings a whole portfolio of high-risk, high-return projects, from deepwater blocks off the coast of West Africa to one promising field that lies 9, 300 feet below the Gulf of Mexico.
But, as Pistorius points out, the opening lap of the 4x400m is always going to be the slowest because you start from the blocks, whereas the other three runners get a rolling start.
Here is the economic punch line: The odd, but powerful, positive that I remember well about Greece was the many modest houses along the side of the rural roads made from cement blocks that had heavy duty rods or cables poking out of the top row of blocks on all four sides.
Earlier this year several hundred homeless temporary workers set up a tent village in Hibiya Park in central Tokyo, across from the labour ministry and a few blocks from the Imperial Palace.
Last seen: walking home from a job at Burger King a few blocks from her home about 7:40 p.m.
Alicia is from Bedford-Stuyvesant, a troubled community just blocks away from Bushwick.
From their doorway, they saw a massive funnel form just blocks away from their house.
Unlike other castles built from solid ice blocks, these are created only with icicles.
She rarely spends time in her two-bedroom New York apartment four blocks from Lincoln Center.
All three of the candidates here are within about two blocks from each other tonight.
Luda had found it next to a pile of garbage about six blocks from her home.
They live several blocks from the World Trade Center and had dealt with that with equanimity.
Seventeen years earlier, legendary rapper Tupac Shakur was shot dead two blocks from the accident scene.
Built in 1763, the John Rutledge House Inn is a few blocks from Francis Marion Square.
The shooting took place two blocks from where rapper Tupac Shakur was killed in 1996.
He got caught in crossfire mere blocks from the University of Chicago Medical Center in 2010.
Wilnis made fine blocks from Taylor and Todorov as Portsmouth tried to regain the lead.
Among other things, an electrical power station exploded just a few blocks from the FORBES offices.
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Yet Brazil suffers from two huge blocks to growth: red tape and gaping inequality.
Live the good life in this San Diego studio apartment, located just blocks from the water.
But first, there is another Big East title to be decided just a few blocks from Broadway.
Someone has to donate "stem cells, " the basic building blocks from which new body parts are grown.
The play, an adaptation of Henry James's novel "Washington Square, " is set just blocks from her new home.
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