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Catherine Forsythe in
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10 29th, 2009 |
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Yuri Kano is a Japanese marathon runner. She is not sponsored by a corporate entity. In this way, she is breaking away from the accepted Japanese approach. Yuri Kano supports herself through the success of her running and she is in New York for the marathon:
“… the marathoner Yuri Kano is something of a maverick in her native Japan. In a sport dominated by company teams that tightly control their runners, Kano runs for an independent athletic club that lets her enter races based on her chances to win rather than those her corporate sponsor deems necessary for promotional purposes.”
link to the article by Ken Belson for The New York Times
[Photo via Newscom]
