World Athletics Championships: Where National Debt Sprints Against Personal Bests
**Track, Field, and the Theater of National Dreams** *Dispatch from the cheap seats of the World Athletics Championships* By the time the 4×400-meter relay limped across the finish line in Budapest last August, the scoreboard read like a UN roll-call written by someone with a grudge: USA 12 golds, Spain 1, India 0 but a…