Word: benoit
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...race of a different kind is just beginning for the world's fastest female marathoner. Joan Benoit, 26, the plucky, pint-size distance runner from Freeport, Me., had seemed a good bet to challenge Norway's Grete Waitz in this year's Olympic marathon, the first ever for women, but on March 20 during a 20-mile run near her home, she noticed a peculiar pain in her right knee...
Looking as fresh as if she had just completed an afternoon stroll, Home-Town Favorite Joan Benoit, 25, glided across the finish line of the 87th Boston Marathon in the time of 2:22:42. That was almost three minutes faster than the previous women's record for the distance, held jointly by New Zealand's Allison Roe and Norway's Crete Waitz. Incredibly, Benoit finished less than 14 minutes after the men's winner, Greg Meyer, 27, who crushed his own competition with a time of 2:09. Said Women's Runner-Up Jacqueline...
Your coverage of the Boston Marathon results Tuesday disturbed me. Shattering the women's world marathon record by nearly three minutes is no small feat--surely Joan Benoit deserved more than a sub-headline and just two paragraphs buried in the middle of your story. A few personal quotes or some biographical details about her, as you had for Greg Meyer, the men's winner, would have made your article more complete. I hope in the future your sports department will be more professionally objective in coverage of women's athletics. Sara G. Shields...
There was 27-year-old Greg Meyer running the least six miles by himself, coming on so-close to a course record on route to his 2:08:54 championship run And there was native Bostonian Joan Benoit shattering the women's world marathon record with a time...
Price reportedly decreed that no competing soft drinks should be served at company functions. Whenever possible, he went on, even the blue color associated with Coke's archrival, Pepsi, should be avoided as a decorative accent at Columbia-sponsored activities. Peter Benoit, Columbia's national publicity manager, says that moviegoers are unlikely to be seeing an actor sipping a Pepsi in Columbia films either...