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The Munich Olympics at 50! Third In A Series – September 10th 1972, A 50 Year Kiwi-America Medal Friendship Begins!
This is the third story in a series on the Munich 1972 Olympics. In this piece, Jeff Benjamin writes about...
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The Munich Olympics at 50! Second In A Series – August 31st & September 3rd 1972- Frank Shorter’s Magnificent 10,000s – 2 Of Them!
This is the second in a series of articles on the Munich Olympics, which happened fifty years ago this week....
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The Munich Olympics at 50! First In A Series – September 2nd, 1972 Dave Wottle’s Olympic 800 Win Through The Eyes Of Frank Shorter!
This is the first in a series from senior writer Jeff Benjamin, concerning the 50th anniversary of the Munich 1972...
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The RunBlogRun Book Review: A Complicated Yet Inspirational Path Lit by Lightning, The Story of Jim Thorpe, by David Maraniss.
This is the review of Path Lit by Lighting, The story of Jim Thorpe, written by David Maraniss. The review...
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COROS Athletes Watch #10: The Most Excellent Adventures of Des Linden
This is our tenth COROS Athletes Watch, and the focus is on Des Linden, who is a two-time Olympian, a...
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0regon 22 World Athletes Champs Redux: 200 meter final: Noah Lyles leads American sweep with an American record
I missed this column by Sean MacPherson, and once I read it, I really liked it. I think it is...
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Birmingham 2022 Diary: Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Moving in the right direction
Careers for athletes are not linear equations. They have highs, lows, and sometimes, plateaus. Stuart Weir, the senior writer for...
Read moreDetailsDavid Wallechinsky: Answering some big questions on the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, by Orrin Konheim for RunBlogRun
As he did in 2016, Orrin Konheim spoke with David Wallechinsky, one of the top experts of the Olympic Games,...
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Casey Carrigan (1968): High School athletes who made the U.S. Olympic Team, from the Athletes Only Archives (2004), by Mark Winitz and James Dunaway
This is from the Athletes Only archives, circa 2004, written by James Dunaway and Mark Winitz. The series is on...
Read moreDetailsAll 209 countries have heroes…
I have been wanting to write this piece for some time. Today, it came together as I was editing. I...
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