Sports Reporter, New York Times
Sports reporter for the New York Times and author of The Girls of Summer: The US Women's Soccer Team and How It Changed the World
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Jere Longman
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The 2-Hour Marathon: Art or Science? Kenyan Dennis Kimetto holds the world record for running the fastest marathon. In 2014, he ran the Berlin marathon in 2 hours, 2 minutes and 57 seconds. The idea of doing it in less than two hours? Some people think it’s impossible or at least 10 years away. But not Yannis Pitsiladis. He’s a physiologist who works out of England, and he’s on a quest to find and prepare the person who can, through science, run a marathon under two hours by 2019.
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In World Cup Contest, England Loses to Russia, US to Qatar In Zurich yesterday, Britain's presentation was made by soccer star David Beckham, Prime Minister David Cameron and Prince William. The US was represented by Bill Clinton and Morgan Freeman. But today, the US and Britain today got kicked in the knees by Russia and Qatar, for the world's largest sporting event for 2018 and 2022. The president of FIFA, world soccer's governing body, announced, " We go to new lands ." Jeré Longman is a sports reporter for the New York Times and author of The Girls of Summer : The US Women's Soccer Team and How It Changed the World.
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