Alberto Salazar

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Photos from 14 Minutes, the new book about world-class marathon runner Alberto Salazar, who was clinically dead for 14 minutes before making a full -- and remarkable -- recovery.

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&Races & Places (quot;...I was 22. What did I have to fear now? I knew I was the toughest runner in the race.") with a group of Cuban Americans training for the Bay of Pigs invasion in the Florida Everglades."

quot;Dick Beardsley, Bill Rodgers, me, and Ed Mendoza

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"That's me as a freshman during a meet at Wayland High School, showing signs of raw talent but with a lot to learn."

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"'The Rookie' with Bill Rodgers (right), Sales & Deals

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"As a high school senior, I place 5th in 1976 World Junior Cross Country Championships in Chepstow, Wales, on a bloody cold day."

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"My brother Ricardo, a Navy pilot, shows me the cockpit controls of an F-14 Tomcat jet fighter at Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia Beach."

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"Renowned Washington State runner Henry Rono trails me during a cross-country race at the University of Oregon."

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"I prepared only 5 weeks for my first New York Marathon. I didn't read any training manuals. I had run Falmouth to the point of death, and I hadn't been afraid..."

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"...I was 22. What did I have to fear now? I knew I was the toughest runner in the race."

Photo by David Madison

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"Dick Beardsley, Bill Rodgers, me, and Ed Mendoza (Results: 2024 NCAA DI Cross-Country Championships), leading the pack near the midpoint of the 1982 Boston Marathon. Soon it would be just Dick and me in the Duel in the Sun."

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"The grueling 56-mile Comrades Marathon between Durban and Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, in 1994, was my last victory before leaving competition."

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"Just days after my heart attack, we're all smiles at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center: from left, Tony, me, Alex, and Maria."

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"I feel blessed to continue in the sport as part of the Nike Oregon Project, and to work with my friend and longtime protégé Galen Rupp, the American record holder in the 10,000 meters."

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