Meb KeflezighiIn the final steps of his historic run, of the greatest day of his running life, Meb Keflezighi ointed to the red block letters on his singlet.
The letters spelled USA. Keflezighi wanted to make sure everybody noticed them, as if there were any chance that they wouldn't.
Keflezighi was not merely a few seconds from finishing the ING New York City Marathon Sunday, and becoming the first U.S. runner to win the race since Alberto Salazar in 1982. He was on the brink of capping a stirring comeback from a bottom that had left him considering retirement, scoring his first marathon victory against a completely loaded field, remembering a fallen comrade as he went.
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