Next month in Rio, 41-year-old Bernard Lagat will make history as the oldest American ever to run at an Olympic games. At the Olympic trials on Saturday, the veteran runner came from behind to pass 5 runners, some 15 years his junior, in the final lap of the men's 5,000-meter. Lagat crossed the finish line in first place with a time of 13 minutes and 35.5 seconds, two-tenths ahead of second place finisher Hassan Mead and less than a half-second ahead of third-place qualifier Paul Chelimo. "I train with young guys and I don't believe that I'm old," Lagat said after the race, according to Sports Illustrated.
- 7/11/2016
- by Tiare Dunlap, @tiaredunlap
- PEOPLE.com
Two plays by Sarah Ruhl are among the 10 new works of theater selected for the 91st edition of the annual Best Plays Theater Yearbook. The choices for 2009-10 were announced today by Jeffrey Eric Jenkins, editor of the yearbook, which will be published by Limelight Editions in 2011. The Best Plays Theater Yearbook was founded in 1920 by drama critic Burns Mantle and honors each work with an essay. This year’s selections were chosen from among Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway productions that opened between June 1, 2009, and May 31, 2010. The new volume will also honor three plays cited by the Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Awards and Citations competition."Despite the naysayers who decry the end of theatrical civilization as each season draws to a close, Best Plays Theater Yearbook finds it increasingly difficult each year to whittle our list to a top 10," Jenkins, who chose the plays in consultation with the yearbook’s editorial board,...
- 7/8/2010
- backstage.com
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