Sunday, April 15, 2012

Boston marathon

  • BOSTON (AP) -- The Run for the Hoses. The Duel in the Sun. The Inferno.
  • (CNN Sports Illustrated)
  • When Thad Ghim lines up in Hopkinton, Mass., for the start of the 116th Boston Marathon, the retired Emory medical school professor and pediatric oncologist won't hold much hope for placing high.
  • (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
  • BOSTON (AP) Many of the 27,000 runners signed up for the Boston Marathon are spending their last day before the race trying to decide whether to deal with the heat forecast for Monday or take a deferment and run next year instead.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • BOSTON — If you can't take the heat, get out of today's marathon. That has been the motto here this weekend as more than 26,000 entrants prepare for the 116th Boston Marathon, the world's oldest and most prestigious 26.
  • (Washington Times)
  • Very few Boston Marathon charity runners have the opportunity to see their fundraising efforts pay off first-hand.
  • (Abington Mariner)
  • While qualifying times were mostly set in much cooler conditions, the possibility of record-breaking high temperatures will slow down everyone participating. The hotter it gets, the harder the 26.2 miles is on a person's body.
  • (Bleacherreport.com)
  • The 116th Boston Marathon picked up, ahem, steam yesterday as the No.
  • (Boston Herald)
  • Survivor winner Ethan Zohn was unable to try to qualify for the Boston Marathon this year since hes battling a recurrence of Hodgkins lymphoma – so his friend, former Bachelorette star Ryan Sutter, is stepping up to the plate.
  • (People)
  • Dick Beardsley still gets goose bumps when he watches old footage of the startling finish of his 1982 Boston Marathon duel with fellow American runner Alberto Salazar.
  • (Boston Herald)
  • With temperatures expecting go above the 80-degree mark Monday for the Boston Marathon, organizers are offering a deferment option to the 27,000 registered runners. The heat can be dangerous for such strenuous activity.
  • (Daily Beast)

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