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The Sunday Read: Dylan Wyke’s tweets, drinking, and dying. Plus: party rocking

Posted on August 19, 2012 by subthree

Did Canadian marathoner Dylan Wykes lose Olympic gold because he tweeted too much? That’s what Running World columnist Mark Remy suggests. Remy worked up a graph correlating the number of tweets to the success of Olympic marathoners and suggests – … Continue reading →

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Special mid-week, Olympic edition of The Sunday Read

Posted on August 9, 2012 by subthree

Okay really, it’s not all that “special.” Truth be told, I didn’t write a Sunday Read this past weekend, it being a long weekend and all. And while throngs of protesters didn’t show up outside my domicile – in fact, … Continue reading →

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Drugs and the Comrades Marathon

Posted on June 20, 2012 by subthree

It’s devastating and disappointing. News broke today that the winner of the grueling, 90-kilometres Comrades Marathon in South Africa was disqualified because of doping. Ludwick Mamabolo was told to walk because of using Methylhexanamine, a stimulant that may be found as … Continue reading →

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