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Article: Athl: The man with the worst job of the Games?
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- August 20, 2004
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AAP General News (Australia)
08-20-2004
Athl: The man with the worst job of the Games?
By Tony Lawrence
ATHENS, Aug 19 Reuters - It's the worst job at the Olympics but somebody's got to do it.
It turns out that Peter Marlow, of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, has got to do it.
Imagine the scene on Friday.
The men's 20 kilometre race walk is drawing to a close. The leader enters the Olympic
stadium, just metres short of the finish line and the dream that has intoxicated him for
four long years.
Exhilarated, he inadvertently breaks that wafer-thin line between a legal fast walk
and an illegal slow run. Then he spots Peter Marlow.
Marlow is moving forward, arm slowly rising ...