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Let the racing begin

Let the racing begin

This newsletter was originally published on 29 March 2021, after the British Olympic marathon trials

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Nov 09, 2021
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I'd invested an hour and a half watching the British Olympic marathon trials on Friday and I was beginning to wonder if I’d wasted my morning. The set-up was that the first two runners would automatically make the Olympic team as long as they had, or ran under, the qualifying time. For most of the race, three men had sat in behind the pacemakers, metron…

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