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Article: TRYING TO CATCH UP BOLDER BOULDER CONTROVERSY FOCUSES SPOTLIGHT ON PLIGHT OF AMERICAN DISTANCE RUNNERS.(Special Pullouts)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- May 24, 1998
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Byline: John Meyer Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer
The Bolder Boulder braintrust thought a change in format might be a clever way to stimulate more interest and create more excitement in the elite athlete races this year. They succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.
Make that nightmares.
Their idea to turn the men's and women's elite races into team competitions was denounced as racist because it had the effect of limiting the dominant Kenyan contingent (and other foreign countries) to three in each race. Columnists, talk-show hosts and editorial-page letters were furious. One columnist compared the Kenya quota to the Hitler's treatment of ...