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Flanagan shows American distance runners can compete with best

By Luke Cyphers
ESPN The Magazine

Friday, August 15, 2008

BEIJING -- Shalane Flanagan was in her happy place. She waved to 90,000 people. She shook hands with several of them. She kissed a baby. A flag draped her shoulders and a smile covered her face. Asked from the stands how it felt to win an Olympic medal, she shouted back, "I don't even know," and merrily jogged the rest of a victory lap at the National Stadium on the first night of track and field at the Beijing Games. Flanagan had just won the bronze in the women's 10,000 meters, and she di ...

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