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  • NYC Marathon returns from pandemic pause for 50th running

    11/06/2021 1:30:46 AM PDT · by blueplum · 5 replies
    ABC ^ | 05 November 2021 | JAKE SEINER AP Sports Writer
    A limited field of 33,000 runners will jog off the Verrazzano Bridge and wind its way toward Central Park on Sunday as the New York City Marathon returns for its 50th edition after being wiped out in 2020 by the coronavirus pandemic ...The race's 1970 debut — staged entirely in Central Park — hardly resembled the five-borough track that has drawn millions into the Big Apple's streets on the first Sunday of nearly every November since. Adaptation, though, has seemingly always enabled the second oldest of the world's marathon majors to do more of what it does best — inspire...