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Saturday, November 3, 2007 12:00 AM

How Oprah ruined the marathon

America's competitive spirit has been wrecked by feel-good amateurs like Oprah whose only goal is to stagger across the finish line.
By Edward McClelland

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  • Saturday, November 3, 2007 06:43 AM

    I thought "bum knee" = can't hack it

    McClelland's never finished a marathon due to injuries. I wonder how he intends to come back and go the distance, as he puts it. Is he proposing that his brink-of-unconsciousness approach to training will undo the laws of physics, repair that torn ACL? And since it WON'T, how does his proposal to run a marathon place him somewhere other than back in the pack with the duffers he disdains?

    —Anonymous

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