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Born May 5, 1975 (age 38)
Asmara, Eritrea
Residence Mammoth Lakes, California
Height 5 feet 7 inches (1.70 m)
Weight 127 pounds (58 kg)
Truthfully, how many folks know where Eritrea is? I've worked for a global logistics company for 33 years, with offices in 220+ countries, yet I had to look that up on Wikipedia. It's in Africa, by the way.
A lot of them were forced out of Ethiopia because they are orthodox christian (typically) and many came to the United States....
You may remember all the media coverage of the Christian persecution back then (snicker)/sarcasm off...
Shame he didn’t point out that the poison of Islam has caused so many problems in his home nation/continent and it’s come to our shores.
So the drought on American Born men continues unabated, I suppose. The bigger issue is they were able to hold the run without any disruptions, and a good time had by all. That’s what’s really important. For one day this year, to use a popular phrase; We are all Bostonians today!
I sympathize for the family of that crazed young man Kayvon, actual name being Kevin. When your bi-polar son becomes over 20 y/o and has not actually committed a crime yet, there is not much one can do but pray and hope he stays out of dangers’ way. You just know his Facebook comments are on fire from angry Boston citizens.
Wining the marathon at age 38 is a very high accomplishment in my book.
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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/04/meet-marathon-meb-keflezighi-the-american-who-won-boston-marathon/
He’s One of the Oldest Champions: Keflezighi turns 39 next month and is the oldest men’s champion in Boston since 1931. James P. Henigan was 38 when he won the 35th version of the race that year and turned 39 five days later on April 25, 1931.
The year before that, 1930, Clarence H. DeMar won the race with a time of 2:34:48 at age 41. It was the last of LeMar’s seven Boston wins.
Christ is Risen!
Meb Keflezighi is an Orthodox Christian! I saw him cross himself after winning the Marathon on a YouTube, and read a Twitter post from him that said he celebrated Orthodox Pascha.
I imagine that he—as well as other Orthodox Christians who were running the Marathon today—can complete their Paschal feasts during Bright Week. All that meat protein will help them repair their muscles, too!!!!
That's a phrase I have heard at least 10,000 times over the past 48 hours...
On a more serious note...National Guard MPs have always been stationed along the route but this year I noticed they were carrying sidearms.I talked to a group of them and said "in the nine years I've lived here I've never seen you guys with sidearms".A Staff Sergent replied "this is the first time in history that we have".