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TOKYO — Ten hurdles and one man stood between Rai Benjamin and his dream. There were other runners in the race, of course, but ultimately, that’s all they really were: Other runners. Norway’s Karsten Warholm, who broke a 29-year-old world record in Oslo last month, was in Lane 6. Benjamin was in Lane 5. On this day, in the damp heat of an empty Olympic Stadium, Benjamin would run the 400-meter hurdles faster than even the great Warholm ever had. And…
