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Too Fast, Too Soon? Young Endurance Runners Draw Cheers and Concerns

Teens in Marathons

Two Texas sisters, ages 12 and 10, run in some of the most grueling races in the nation, but doctors say they are not in danger despite how young they are... The national championship trail run was held on a course both grueling and beautiful, more than 13 miles through the mountains near the Great Salt Lake. Most of it was an unrelenting up-and-down, the path often hugging ridges along a steep plunge, curling through a forest of scrub oak, white pine and red maple. The elevation hit a lung-busting 7,300 feet.

 

Gold Awarded Amid Dispute Over Runner’s Sex

Gold Awarded Amid Dispute Over Runner’s Sex

Doctors are attempting to determine if Caster Semenya, an 18-year-old runner from South Africa, has too many male characteristics to compete in track as a woman.

 

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