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Osaka Marathon Preview

The Osaka Marathon is Monday, with a live ad-free national broadcast starting at 9:00 a.m. local time on NHK that you’ll probably need a VPN to pick up online. No word yet on live results, but maybe try the separate elite field site. We’ll post a link if something surfaces, and whatever we can from on the ground in Osaka.Anyway, there are some pretty good story lines this time around. Last year

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Miura and Kawaguchi Win Senior National XC Championships Titles

Japan’s National Cross Country Championships happened Saturday in Fukuoka, maybe the earliest selection race in the world for next January’s World XC Championships in Florida.The senior men’s 10 km lived up to the hype with a 4-way race between 3000 m SC NR holder Ryuji Miura, 10000 m NR holder Kazuya Shiojiri, sub-28 man Ryuto Igawa and Hakone Ekiden downhill specialist Aoi Ito. It came down to