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| Illustration from Kip Litton New Yorker article |
Sunday, August 31, 2014
UNLOCKED NYorker article on Kip Litton - now available FREE OF CHARGE!
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Kip Litton Story on NPR's "Here and Now" WBUR in Boston
Special Guest: Mark Singer
See full article here
Sunday, August 17, 2014
Kip Litton article in New Yorker magazine Monday July 30th
"My article about him in The New Yorker will be published Monday (July 30), in the issue dated August 6, 2012. It will also be available on our website (www.newyorker.com), but behind a paywall accessible only to subscribers.
It speaks for itself." - Mark Singer
Read more: http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=3863010&page=217#ixzz222N9keaw
ARTICLE PREVIEW FROM NEWYORKER.COM
"In 'Marathon Man' (p. 40), Mark Singer investigates the strange controversy surrounding Kip Litton, a small-town dentist who has allegedly repeatedly cheated in marathons. “Since the early nineties, technology has made it possible to clock runners with precision and to track them at measured intervals,” Singer writes, but Litton, who was on a self-professed mission to complete marathons in under three hours in all fifty states, appears to have exploited the running community’s faith in those systems to fraudulently win, or place in, various races. Litton has “become a consuming object of contempt” in the running community, much of which has played out in the blogosphere...."
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