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Don't run (and don't laugh): The little-known history of racewalking

  • Written by John Affleck, Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, Pennsylvania State University
imageRacewalkers turn a corner – keeping one foot on the ground – during the women's 20-km event at the 2012 London Olympics.Maureen Barlin/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

While it was a huge sporting event in the United States in the years after the Civil War and was an early Olympic event, racewalking has been regarded for decades as something of a...

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