A reformed Louisiana drug dealer and a Navajo woman who qualified by one moment are among the hundreds who will run for a region in Rio on SaturdayBy the afternoon of 13 February,we’ll know who will be representing the United States in the 2016 Olympic marathon.
The race is like the All-Star game of American running, though with much higher stakes. Any American citizen who ran a qualifying time in an eligible half marathon (1hr 15min for women and 1hr 5min for men) or marathon (2hr 45min for women and 2hr 19min for men) between 1 August 2013 and 17 January of this year is eligible to run in Los Angeles on Saturday.
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Source: theguardian.com