![]() ![]() He was a smoker at the time, watched me in ‘72. “The best example I have is (four-time Boston Marathon champion) Bill Rodgers, who was another person in the running boom. The fact that, ‘well, if (Shorter) can run that far, I can do that.’ “I think I kind of demystified the distance. “I think what happened is, (Americans) didn’t realize that it was really a part of American culture – that ability to sort of endure and just constantly work at something and have a goal and be able to focus on that goal, and anyone can do it,” Shorter said. So, I win, and I think it just surprised a lot of people.”Īnd prompted many of them to lace on some track shoes and hit the roads. So, I went to law school in Florida full time, and then trained for the Olympics. ![]() I was just, in a way, an average, normal American from upstate New York who just got better and better at what he was doing in college (at Yale) and got out of college and decided he wanted to go to the Olympics. “I wasn’t one of the favorites, even though I was coming up very quickly. ![]() “At that point, Americans weren’t considered endurance athletes,” he said. ![]()
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