![]() ![]() The biggest reason at that time in his life, at age 24, was his fellow runners: Athletes he trained and competed with, like Kenny Moore and Jack Bacheler. ![]() I didn't run for that cheer because it has never bothered me." "I really never felt robbed, I didn't feel cheated," Shorter says about the imposter. The two got to talk about what happened that night when Segal took Shorter and his family out to dinner. That's an imposter, get that guy off the track!" "Love Story" author Segal was a runner and had been one of Shorter's professors at Yale University. ![]() were more upset than he was, and anyone watching the ABC broadcast heard commentator Erich Segal shout, "That's not Frank. Shorter says his relatives watching on TV in the U.S. He thought maybe that noise was aimed at him because Americans weren't supposed to win the marathon. Shorter didn't hear a cheering crowd: He heard whistles, which he interpreted as booing, and he wondered what was going on. An imposter, a young man, had run onto the track before Shorter and crossed the finish line before he did. When Shorter entered the Olympic Stadium in West Germany 12 years earlier there was confusion. When Benoit ran into the stadium in Los Angeles in 1984 the crowd erupted. She's the only American winner of the women's event. Joan Benoit won the women's Olympic marathon in 1984, the first time the event was held for women. Shorter was the first American winner of the Olympic Marathon since 1908 and no man from the United States has won it since. He finished the 26.2-mile race in 2 hours, 12 minutes and 19 seconds, more than 2 minutes ahead of the second-place finisher. 10, 1972, Shorter toed the starting line in Munich, West Germany, where he had been born in 1947 while his father worked there as a military doctor, and he ran for the gold medal. He would run in his event, the marathon, because not competing would mean "they win" - the terrorists. Nothing's worth more than human life, he thought: "We're going home."īut once the decision was made to continue the games, Shorter never hesitated. Find that audio here.Īfter 11 Israeli athletes died in a terrorist attack, American runner Frank Shorter was sure the 1972 Olympics were over. (Alex Ashlock)Įditor's note: This story was rebroadcasted on Sept 14, 2022. No man from the United States has won it since. Frank Shorter was the first American winner of the Olympic Marathon since 1908. ![]()
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