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"As a matter of fact," says four-time Winner Bill Rodgers, "Boston never even worked within the amateur rules before. For the past many years, they could have paid airfares, housing and food allowances." Now, apparently afraid of being left behind by marathons in New York, London and Tokyo, Boston...
What happened to nobility and sentimentality? "As for anybody who has illusions about the nobility of the sport," Rodgers answers, "they're generally not the marathoners themselves, certainly not the world-class marathoners. It wasn't the athletes who said they didn't want to be professionals...
For the Boston Marathoners who are not world class, for whom Boston has always represented a sort of everyman's World Series, will it be the same? Rodgers says it will. He thinks professionalism and commercialism merely "ensure that world-class competitors will be present," and should have no...
Bill Rodgers loves running. "It's more than just a sport," he said. "It's not just a fad. I think running is going to get bigger and bigger in the future."
But for now, he hopes to recapture some of the glory the Boston Marathon has given him in the past. Fans of the race have long spoken of Rodgers in streams of superlatives, and when he talked about Boston, he did the same. "If you know you're going to...