Olympic Stories: The Women’s Marathon Made Me Cry
Doesn’t anyone else have this problem? The Women’s Marathon makes me cry. I watched most of the marathon on TV. For hours we followed Constantina Tomescu as she took a larger and larger lead. Behind her a group kept pace but at a distance. Then they came up the city streets. The Bird’s Nest Stadium was in sight. Tomescu was the first to make the turn that took her down the road to the stadium. When Tomescu entered the stadium,…