The Sprinter stretches the length of the gay rope — what would happen if a fellow "went straight" like his mother asked? In Christoph Böll’s black comedy, Wieland (Wieland Samolak) gives up his disco wallflower life for the clean, healthy world of... sports. Pushed by mama and pulled by the sight of a fleshed out pair of athletic briefs, inspired to championship aspirations by sudden fatal passion for a Valkyrian shot-putter, encouraged by an incompetent pair, "Arms" and "Legs" (her coach and his), and manipulated by a group of real estate speculators after the stadium, Wieland rises to undreamed-of heights only to meet an ineffably sad and hilarious end.