Section index
Commentary
Lotteries, trademarks, doping, drink, and who gets to take part.
Not everything here is an interview or a round-up. Every so often something in the sport needed arguing about at length: a lottery that looked unfair, a trademark notice that read as a threat, a doping conversation that never turned into policy, a drinking culture that suits most people and excludes some.
They have aged unevenly. A few of the arguments were settled. Most were not, and are still being had in the same words.
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A year without a beer: what happens when you take the drink out of running culture
The finish-line beer is not really about beer, which is exactly the problem.
515 wordsGetting kids on the trails, and why the sport keeps failing to
Soccer starts at four. Gymnastics starts at three. Running is still handed out as a punishment in PE.
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