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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 10:22 AM

    Race-ism (noun)

    The belief or doctrine that the presence of non-athletic runners in a marathon cause, merely through their participation, the best runners to do worse. The belief involves the paranoid attribution of the increasing number of non-athletic marathon runners to a black female cultural icon.

    See also McClelland-ism.

    —Anonymous

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