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WTW: A Look At The Ethiopian Olympic Marathon Team, America’s Teen Sprint Prodigies Continue To Impress, Courtney Wayment and Karoline Grøvdal Run Fast
Below we try to make sense of some of the major events of the last week.
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Assuming the Ethiopian federation sticks to what it has said it will do and take the top 3 from its trials to the Olympics, the list of names that didn’t make the 2020 Ethiopian Olympic men’s marathon team is staggering.
Kenenisa Bekele – the world’s greatest distance runner and second-fastest marathon in history isn’t on the team, nor is the third- or fourth-fastest men in history in
Sonia O’Sullivan Shares Her Training Log With LetsRun.com – How Did The Villanova Grad Win The World Cross-Country Title (Twice) In 1998?
What Does It Take To Win World XC? A Lot Of Miles
By Jonathan Gault
May 21, 2015
Sonia O’Sullivan gave him a copy of her training log from March 1998 – the month leading up to her double victory at World Cross-Country Championships in Marrakech, Morocco that year. With spring marathon season, the World Relays, big domestic track meets such as the Penn/Drake Relays, the Payton Jordan Invitational, and the start of the Diamond League season, we haven’t had time to focus on anything outside of races recently. With some downtime this week before the schedule ramps up again, we thought we’d share this neat document with you and some inside details about O’Sullivan’s wins.