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Universal Sports Will Provide Live Coverage of the London Marathon

I received another email from Patrick at Universal Sports, this time with information about the London Marathon: This Sunday, April 26th, Universal Sports will continue the Marathon Month with LIVE coverage of the Flora London Marathon via UniversalSports.com. Fans in the US and Canada can tune-in to watch the world’s top marathon runners compete head [...]

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Kara Goucher will not run the 2009 London Marathon

Just yesterday, Kara Goucher was considering the London Marathon. It took about a day or so, but her coach, Alberto Salazar, has talked her out of running. The AP is listing her possible attempt at running London 6 days after Boston as having been unprecedented, but I know that that isn’t true. At least 5 [...]

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Kara Goucher to Run the 2009 London Marathon?

Try to imagine that you have an honest chance of winning the Boston Marathon. You run the marathon, and there are still 8 women in the lead pack past 20 miles because the pace is so slow (remember, you have an honest chance of winning!) Then imagine that you are outsprinted in the last mile [...]

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This Week Last Year: Boston and a State of Emergency

Just like last week last year, most of what I wrote this week centered around the Boston Marathon. This week I described what happened as opposed to what was coming up. The website updated automatically as I ran with text alerts, notifying the site about my disappointing finishing time. I missed out on all of [...]

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Ryan Hall took 5th Place in London

Ryan Hall’s Splits 10K, 29:11 20K, 58:58 1/2, 1:02:13 30K, 1:28:38 40K, 1:59:23 finish, 2:06:17 This morning was the London Marathon, and coming through in an impressive 5th place was Ryan Hall with a time of 2:06:17. He came across the line over 2 minutes faster than he ran last year in the race. Ryan [...]

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Over 5000 runners treated as heat rises in London Marathon

The London Marathon was today, and over 5000 runners were treated with over 70 being sent along to the hospital after the temperatures got up near 70°F. This equals the 1996 heat record for the race. Martin Lel won the men’s race by three seconds in 2:07:41, outsprinting Abderrahim Goumri and Felix Limo. The lead [...]

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Paul Tergat misses London Marathon

Paul Tergat won the New York City marathon last November, and has been training really well in the lead up to next weekend’s London Marathon. Tergat had to pull out of the London Marathon at the last minute, though, due to a calf injury.

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Tour de France will start in London in 2007

Next year’s Tour de France will start in London; this will be the third time that the Tour has passed through England and the first time that the race has begun there.

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