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Ringing endorsements of Bermuda International Race Weekend have been made by two influential voices from the world of road running.
Both Kathrine Switzer and Andrew Hersam competed in the three-day running festival, taking part in the inaugural Bermu...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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The credit crunch affecting global financial markets is accelerating the integration of the world's fastest-growing economy China and the world's biggest economic power the US, according to Bermuda's John Milligan-Whyte.
He has been at the forefront ...
DATE: Jan 21, 2008
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Thom Gilligan, of Boston-based Marathon Tours, was the man who dreamt up the idea of a Bermuda Triangle Challenge whereby competitors run the mile on Friday, 10K on Saturday and marathon or half-marathon on Sunday.
The Triangle Challenge is being hel...
DATE: Jan 18, 2008
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Things are getting serious for tonight's KPMG Front Street Mile, so serious infact that Bermuda's fastest resident miler Chris Estwanik tried a pre-morning practice run around the Bird Cage earlier this week.
His attempt was less successful that he w...
DATE: Jan 18, 2008
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It is at the end of our interview that women's running heroine Kathrine Switzer says something that profoundly links to her famous historic moment in the 1967 Boston Marathon.
I had just asked her what running has brought to her life after taking it ...
DATE: Jan 18, 2008
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Defending champion Neil Speaight is back in Bermuda and fired up for tomorrow evening's KPMG Front Street Mile only months after a major health scare.
Today he has reason to revel in the fact that he is competing at a high level again after a tumour ...
DATE: Jan 17, 2008
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Two Ethiopian athletes added at the 11th hour to this year's Bermuda International Race Weekend marathon elite guests list appear to be likely winners.
Both have impressive marathon times which, on paper, suggest they will outrun their rivals on Sund...
DATE: Jan 16, 2008
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The decision by a number of notable social commentary bloggers in Bermuda to step away from the online world through disillusionment and a questioning of whether their efforts make a difference has reverberated elsewhere in the region.
The online com...
DATE: Jan 15, 2008
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Sid Howard will take part in the Bermuda International Race Weekend 10K for an astonishing 29th time this Saturday.
The former American world age record holder for 800m is regarded as an honourary Bermudian runner these days on account of the extraor...
DATE: Jan 15, 2008
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She is the woman at the centre of the iconic black-and-white images that went around the world in 1967 recording a defining moment in the history of women's running.
Next week, the woman hailed by Runner's Magazine as one of running's "four visionari...
DATE: Jan 12, 2008
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