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Note on the News: U.S. athletes miss payday to run Olympic marathon trials

Posted July 16th, 2007 at 7:09 AM by David Monti

Section: News & Results, Marathons, Olympics

Writing for the New York Times, reporter Liz Robbins explores how American marathoners must bypass potentially lucrative appearance fees in order to compete in their respective U.S. Olympic Team Trials marathons. You can read the story here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/14/sports/othersports/14marathon.html

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Podcast 41: Post-London Interview with Meb Keflezighi

Posted April 23rd, 2007 at 1:55 PM by Adam Jacobs

Section: News & Results, Marathons, Special Features, Interviews, Podcasts

Episode 41 of The Final Sprint Podcast features my exclusive post- London Marathon interview with 2004 Olympic marathon Silver medalist Meb Keflezighi. Meb, who also joined us a few days ago for Episode 40, was an American favorite at yesterday’s London Marathon and ran among the leaders until an injury forced him to withdraw from the race.

In the interview Meb takes us through his race: from the pre-race prayers with Ryan Hall and his family - to what went wrong, trying to fight through the pain and the disappointment of being forced to withdraw in order to prevent serious injury.

Download the podcast to hear Meb discuss these topics, as well as, the effects of the warm weather; why so many other elites were forced to drop out (i.e. - Stefano Baldini [hamstring], Khalid Khannouchi [foot] and Haile Gebrselassie [breathing/chest]); the record-setting, debut performance of young teammate Ryan Hall; and turning his focus to the 2007 Olympic Marathon Trials!

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Host: Adam Jacobs
Guest: Meb Keflezighi
Producer: Greg Cherniet
Music: Ryan Ahlwardt & Darnell Perkins
File size: 11.1 MB
Length: 00:16:10

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McGlynn and Wallace hope for U.S. Olympic Trials Qualifiers at Napa Valley Marathon

Posted February 27th, 2007 at 10:00 AM by Hariz Siddiqui

Section: News & Results, Marathons

Tom McGlynn of Burlingame, C.A., and his training partner, Mike Wallace of Menlo Park, C.A., hope to score a fast time at the 29th Annual Kaiser Permanente Napa Valley Marathon on Sunday, March 4, that will qualify them for the U.S. Men’s Olympic Marathon Trials on November 3, 2007, in New York City. The Trials race will select the U.S. men’s team that will compete in the 2008 Olympic Games men’s marathon in Beijing, China next year.

To qualify for the men’s 2008 Trials, U.S. men must run 2:22:00 or faster. Coincidentally, 20 years ago at the 1987 Napa Valley Marathon, Dick Beardsley set the men’s course record of 2:16:20 on NVM’s certified course in a successful outing to qualify for the 1988 U.S. Men’s Olympic Marathon Trials.
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