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- From: terry@jgaltstl.UUCP (terry linhardt)
- Newsgroups: rec.running
- Subject: Re: Clinton mediocre runner?
- Message-ID: <864@jgaltstl.UUCP>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 17:52:26 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.175447.20289@cbnews.cb.att.com> <BzMpu2.t04@austin.ibm.com>
- Organization: The Lafayette Group, St. Louis, MO.
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- In article <BzMpu2.t04@austin.ibm.com>, spit@austin.ibm.com (John F. Spitzer) writes:
- +
- + In article <1992Dec21.175447.20289@cbnews.cb.att.com>, jmk@cbnews.cb.att.com (joseph.m.knapp) writes:
- + > In a Nov. 27 news article, you characterize President-elect
- + > Clinton's race time of 24:16 in a five-kilometer run as "fair
- + > at best" and a "mediocre jog."
- +
- + This mild ridicule does seem unwarranted, but I'm curious to see the original
- + article. Does anyone have the original and can either transcribe or at least
- + communicate the context of the article?
- +
- + I wonder what the original author's 5K time is -- if he/she could run that far!
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- The author's observations are correct. What difference does it make
- whether or not the author can duplicate the feat? Just because you
- cannot duplicate a feat does not mean you cannot be a knowledgeable
- observer.
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