Part 3 - Post #5

Frank Shorter won the '72 Olympic marathon gold and the '76 silver, Bill Rodgers was the No. 1 ranked marathoner in the world for three years, and Alberto Salazar won Boston, New York, and the Comrades ultra-marathon. In ’72 Olympic marathon, six Americans won the medal. However, Twenty years later, there was no more a single 2:12 marathoner anywhere in the country. The United States couldn’t even get one runner to meet the 2:14 qualifying standard for the 2000 Olympics; How did United States of America runner go from leader of the pack to lost and left behind? It’s hard to determine a single cause for any event, but if it has to be explained, it would be money.

  

In United States of America, there are still many fast runners. However, most athletic athletes in United States of America play basketball, baseball, and football etc. They want to play sports that can make money and sports that many fans would support.