04-19-2011, 11:55 PM
Good article. Â The best line is from the section on the economics of the marathon:
Marathoning may be the only sport in which sponsors target the losers, and the losers pay for the winners. Thats how the running boom played out for the Kenyans and the Ethiopians: it created a lot of slow, rich American marathoners willing to pay big money to get beat.
Marathoning may be the only sport in which sponsors target the losers, and the losers pay for the winners. Thats how the running boom played out for the Kenyans and the Ethiopians: it created a lot of slow, rich American marathoners willing to pay big money to get beat.
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