Posts Tagged ‘World Class Performances’

2009 Boston Marathon – At Last, American-Born Runners Click It Up a Notch Against African Winners

Written by admin on August 2nd, 2009. Posted in Uncategorized

ght © 2009 Ed BagleyThe American marketing nightmare that is the Boston Marathon is not going away, but at least two American-born athletes have now offered us a glimmer of hope that we might at sometime in the 21st Century win the race that we own.Two world-class African athletes,a male Ethiopian and a female Kenyan, again swept the titles at the 2009 Boston Marathon on Monday (4-20-09). Their names, Deriba Merga (male) and Salina Kosgei, and their ethnicity do not help their popularity or marketability in America despite their world-class performances.It is difficult, if not impossible, Read more...