Both good things and bad things on the national running front this morning:
-- Martin Lel won the London Marathon, with Ryan Hall finishing fifth in 2:06:16, which I believe makes him the second-fastest American (behind our own Khalid Khannouchi).
-- The New York Times has a front-page article alleging that the doping problems among U.S. track athletes runs deeper than previously disclosed. The article is very weak on details, and the evidence presented in it is pretty sketchy - the most prominent name, however, is Maurice Greene. What's frustrating about Greene is that despite several different attempts (and methods) to get a comment over the past two weeks, he just doesn't respond.
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There's also an article in the Sports section of the Times today (4/13/08) about Joan Benoit Samuelson called "Marathon Matriarch..."
Yes, I had skipped over it, and forgot to come back to apend the blog posting. Joan Benoit has always been one of my heroes, so it's great to see the wonderful press she's getting now - there was a very nice writeup in Runner's World a few months back as well.
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