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# Duel in the Sun: Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley, and America's Greatest Marathon

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- **What is this?** Duel in the Sun: Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley, and America's Greatest Marathon by john brant
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Duel in the Sun: Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley, and America's Greatest Marathon

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## Customer Reviews

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    Timely.
  

*by B***E on Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2022*

It arrived on time and in good condition.

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    Entertaining Book on the Greatest of All Boston Races
  

*by D***Y on Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2010*

This is a pretty exciting book on the greatest race in Boston Marathon history between two of America's (Salazar was a born in Cuba but has American citizenship)greatest distance runners of that time coming as the career of the great Bill Rodgers was just past peak but stil competetive. As the race did to the top finishers in the 83 Boston, the race was so competetive and intense, both competitors were never quite the same again physically as they were then. It's as if they each damaged part of their physiology that day made worse by the ever pleasing Beardsly's racing schedule. The style of the book is a bit challenging as alternate chapters flash between the race as flasback sections on the careers of both men, family life and even post race experiences flashing forward. I agree with many of the reviewers that the book would have been better served by starting with a bio on the runners up to the race date, providing the race story followed by the post race bios on both runners that sadly includes devastating injuries and health issues, particularly in Beardsly's case. I had already read Beardsly's personal bio on his life that includes the race and in "Duel in the Sun", Beardsly's historical segements are almost verbatim from his book.  Thus, you wil enjoy the book better if you read Beardsly's book afterwards or skim through Beardsly's bio parts as presented in Duel if you already read Beardsly's book. The information on Salazar's unique physical issues were very revealing and provide a greater and appreciative pictures of the struggles he went through that finnaly obtained some relief capped by his famous 50 mile untra victoria in Africa. I had also hoped that there would be more pictures of the race and with more commentary from the competitors that stayed wiuth them longest, particularly, the very game Rodgers who was the last to let go on a very hot day. Well worth reading but I think it could have been better but hats off to Beardsly and Salazar for running one of the most competetive races of all time, gutting it all the way.

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    Racing Past The Finish Line
  

*by B***L on Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2006*

Like running a marathon, there are great highs and some steep lows in Duel in the Sun, but it is well worth the read.Author John Brant chronicles the lives of Alberto Salazar and Dick Beardsley before and after their epic stride-for-stride thriller in the 1982 Boston Marathon. It was a struggle between two athletes seemingly racing toward peak years of performing on the international stage. But the race took more out of each runner than anyone imagined.Salazar - perhaps the last great American distance runner - was a superstar on the track, grass and the roads and had the cockiness of Jimmy Connors while delivering a KO punch on his opponents like the young George Foreman. Beardsley was the "everyman's" runner, whose times at a variety of shorter distances paled to his competition, but was coming of age physically and financially in the long distances on the roads.The book is as much biography and history as much as a review of the race. At times it seems as if Brant is rushed in his writing, which is surprising since the text is a light 203 pages, with the photograph section in that count.But it is penned at a time when the running boom has long-since cooled, but raced when events like the Boston Marathon commanded front-page stories on sports pages and magazines, and oftentimes covered for hours on live regional or national TV.And perhaps the best lesson learned is not what happened during the cheers of the fans as Salazar and Beardsley matched strides to the tape, but how that two hour and nine minute journey impacted their lives after the finish line.

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