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Goucher Won't Waste This Olympic Chance

July 17, 2012 at 09:30pm EST | by Barbara Huebner, NYRR News Service

Four years ago, fresh off of her 10,000-meter bronze medal at the 2007 IAAF World Championships, Kara Goucher went to the Olympics on a mission.

“In Beijing I wanted to medal so bad,” Goucher said on Tuesday in a Google + “Hangout” video chat, in partnership with the New York Times. “I was like, ‘Let’s do this.’ Instead of enjoying the process and the experience, I just wanted to get there. I had so much anxiety: Read More

Categories: Pro Athletes

Ryan Hall: Foot Injury Has Cleared Up

July 16, 2012 at 11:30pm EST | by Barbara Huebner, NYRR News Service

With less than a month remaining before the Men’s Olympic Marathon on August 12, U.S. Olympian Ryan Hall said on Monday that the plantar fasciitis in his left foot has finally healed.

“A couple weeks ago when I was up in Eugene at the Trials, things just really turned the corner on that and my foot seems to be in the clear now,” he said in a live video chat during a Google + “Hangout.” “My Read More

Categories: Pro Athletes

Flanagan Cites NYC Rivals as Key to Confidence

July 16, 2012 at 01:00pm EST | by Barbara Huebner, NYRR News Service

In a Google + “Hangout” video interview on Friday, Shalane Flanagan said that her runner-up performance in the 2010 ING New York City Marathon, which was her debut at the distance, gives her great confidence going into the Olympic Games.

“New York is one of the toughest ones, so I wanted to go in, throw myself to the world and see if I could survive,” Flanagan said, citing the fact that neither the New York race Read More

Categories: Pro Athletes

300 Pounds and 10 Years Later: A New Goal

July 10, 2012 at 01:00pm EST | by Barbara Huebner, NYRR News Service

The traditional gift for a 10th anniversary is something made of tin or aluminum.

A marathon finisher’s medal should be close enough.

In October 2000, Rick Salewske, of Dallas, TX, weighed 538 pounds and had a 66-inch waist. The steering wheel of his car rubbed holes into several pairs of trousers. He couldn’t sit in ordinary chairs, squeeze into stadium seats, or take an airplane trip.

The CEO of the company for which he worked took him aside Read More

Categories: Human Interest

5 Tricks for Interviewing Foreign Athletes

July 12, 2012 at 03:15pm EST | by Barbara Huebner, NYRR News Service

For journalists covering the upcoming Olympic Games, the Tower of London might as well be the Tower of Babel. More than 200 countries will be sending athletes to London, and every one of those athletes will have a story. So, all of you English-speaking “scribbly liners”—as a late and beloved Boston Globe copy desk chief used to call reporters in the days of that antique tool known as the pencil—open your notebooks. Or turn on Read More

Categories: Human Interest

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