Word: finish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...toward the finish line, there was no one in sight. However when we finished the race, and had clearly won, we were told that the race had changed and was now extended in duration...
This situation is analogous to Cosmos Ndeti's or Uta Pippig's reaching the finish line of the 26.2 miles Boston Marathon after months of training only to be told that the officials have changed the length of the race while they were running and now they need to run an extra mile...
Doubtless, Kenyan native Lameck Aguta, who finished the race with a time 2:10:34 to win the men's field, Ethiopian Fatuma Roba, who won the women's race with time of 2:26:24, and the handful of other elite runners that crossed the finish line in under two and a half hours were the stars of yesterday's 101st Boston Marathon...
...while the estimated 1 million was down a half a million from last year's much publicized 100th anniversary, the finish line at the Boston Public Library was plenty loud when the lead runners began to trickle...
Harvard seeks to avenge last year's finish behind Penn at San Diego. Penn finished second in the Sprints last year, but the subsequent disqualification of Northeastern made the Quakers the titlists...