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Cut for length

This came out of the column I just sent in. I was considering when, if ever, I’d heard a crowd roar the way they did in Boston for Tirunesh Dibaba’s last kilometer.

The only thing I could think of was at the 1999 World Championships in Seville, when Abel Anton arrived in the stadium at the end of the marathon.

His victory party was three or four floors below my hotel room, and not only did I get smashed (not difficult, considering how fatigued I was by then) but I saw the best flamenco I’ve ever seen danced by a man who had run a marathon less than six hours before. And Anton was not young, even by marathon standards.

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Posted by pjm on February 1, 2005 12:50 AM |

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I would send this by e-mail, but I just sent you a couple e-mails, so I’ll try a less direct route (though it’s bound to end up in the same place). I just wanted to say that I liked your column. Maybe it’s my short attention span, but the format worked well, and you tied it together nicely at the end.

Posted by: Alison | February 2, 2005 12:11 PM

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