Although the races attract hundreds of thousands of spectators, most of them snatch only brief glimpses of the noisy four-wheeled inverted aeroplanes scudding around the tarmac, their aerofoils upside down to glue them to the track rather than lift them off a runway.
Wayne Alexander, Emory's chief cardiologist at the time, hypothesized that the same glue that adheres cholesterol to the artery wall may also set off the inflammation.
The belief that he could pull off such stunning triumphs at will is what use to glue us to the TV whenever Tiger had a golf club or a clinching putt within his grasp.