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Last week Marathoner Cote lined up with ten challengers, dressed in woolen tights and wearing on their moccasined feet specially built racing snowshoes, narrower and lighter than ordinary ones. Three years ago, when Snowshoer Cote set a new world's record, the thermometer registered 10° below zero-and he crossed the finish line with partially frozen feet and knees. Last week it was warmer, and Cote was in less of a hurry. His winning time...
...size, the University of Toronto led. This is explained by the fact that in Canada every child is trained to live outdoors in winter, and so it naturally follows that when grown up he continues to take part in winter sports. He has become a proficient skater, or snowshoer, or ski-runner, and when he goes to college he enters into these sports...
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