La viuda de Bin Laden fue arrestada tras el operativo estadounidense en los barracones donde se refugiaban cerca de la capital paquistaní en 2011, acción en la que murió el líder de Al Qaeda.
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KNAUB HAS 7-YEAR ITCH ’83 WHEELCHAIR CHAMP EAGER TO REGAIN TITLE
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) April 15, 1990 | Marvin Pave, Globe Staff Jim Knaub is a man on a mission.
Winner of the Boston Marathon men’s wheelchair division in 1982 and ’83, he is determined to win again in ’90.
“I’ve sacrificed a lot of opportunities in my life to seriously train for marathons, but I’ve never trained harder than for this year’s Boston Marathon,” said the native of Long Beach, Calif., who came out of a two-year retirement in 1987 and has been playing catch-up the last two years.
“It’s kind of like Larry Bird coming off his layoff from basketball,” said Knaub. “Last year, Boston was such a great surprise for me. My stamina and strength over the first few hills gave me a lot of confidence.” Despite a faulty handgrip, Knaub finished just a half-mile behind France’s Philippe Couprie, who set a world record, and Canada’s Andre Viger while recording his best time ever in Boston (1:38.25). “I felt I had a reasonable shot at winning Boston last year, and that’s really pumped me up for this year,” said the former Long Beach State pole vaulter, who made the final of the US Olympic team trials in 1976.
Knaub, who has campaigned long and hard for corporate sponsorship of a US wheelchair team — a goal that will come to fruition this year — has been on a hot streak: He finished first in the Super Bowl 10K at Redondo Beach, Calif., in January and the Tom Sullivan 10K national championships in Torrance, Calif., on St. Patrick’s Day.
“The Sullivan race was meaningful and crucial,” said Knaub, a paraplegic who was injured in a motorcycle accident in 1978. “About a month before the race, I had separated a rib that knocked me out of the Los Angeles Marathon one of five victories last year, and I had just 11 miles of training in four weeks prior to the Sullivan 10K. in our site 7 year itch
“It was also the first time that the best US athletes were assembled in one place, and I had to outsprint Doug Kennedy for the win. But, boy, were my ribs hurting.” The Sullivan 10K also was Knaub’s first as a wheelchair athlete 11 years ago. He finished last in a field of 20, but didn’t mind. go to site 7 year itch
“I remember hearing the starting gun and watching how fast people went out of view,” he said. “It was my first experience, and I hadn’t been training very long, so it was understandable. But it wasn’t a total loss because I was racing my brother Fred, who was on foot, for a case of beer. I finished closer to my predicted time than he did, and I still haven’t collected from him.” Knaub’s pre-Boston training regimen consists of 20-25 miles a day. He has been giving his lightweight chair and his body a test over some nearby hills every other day to simulate conditions of the Boston course, which happens to be his favorite.
“There are different ways to evaluate the Boston race,” he said. “As a total experience, it’s unparalleled — the history behind it, the level of competition, the educated fans, the festivities of the day. But if you strip all of it away and just evaluate Boston as a course, it’s my favorite because we’re all in this sport to test ourselves, and this is one tough test.” Knaub, who is vying for the $7,500 first-place prize money, plus incentive bonuses for world or course records, is sponsored by General Nutrition Centers, J.T. Racing and Fortress Wheelchairs, the last a manufacturer for which he works. “The plan is that at the end of this year, all those companies will sponsor a US wheelchair team, something I’ve been working toward and hoping for,” he said.
“Wheelchair racing has an incredible message behind it. It needed to be taken out of the ‘isn’t it great that those boys can do that’ category and into its participants being recognized as athletes,” added Knaub, who was racing just six months after his motorcycle accident.
Knaub said the state of the art is constantly changing for wheelchair competitors.
“We keep reaching plateaus for change,” he said. “For the most part, the rules used to limit us. Now the wheelbase limitation has been lifted, and my chair, for example, is very long, and we use a lot of bicycling technology in it. The whole idea of the racing chair is to maximize ability and minimize the disability, and for a paraplegic, compared to the double amputee, the more streamlined chair helps.” Especially on a course such as Boston.
“It can be extremely humbling because of the severity of the hills,” he said. “Boston means putting everything you’ve done on the line. You know it’s going to hurt. It’s a sacrifice.” Knaub, who set a world record in Boston in ’83, doesn’t keep many trophies or mementos around the house. But he has saved a framed photo of his 1983 Boston finish.
“Looking at it, ” he said, “makes me want to recapture the feeling.” PAVE ;04/04 NIGRO ;04/16,10:38 KNAUB15 Marvin Pave, Globe Staff
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