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Roger Robinson (May 16, 2017). "Joan Benoit Samuelson Is 60 Today, And She Has an Audacious Goal: No woman older than 60 has ever broken 3 hours in the marathon". Runner's World. Retrieved May 16, 2017. One of the most howling errors on Wikipedia is the sentence in the Samuelson entry that begins, 'Since her retirement from competitive running...'

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2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials –
Women’s Marathon April 20, 2008
Final Results (official)
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90 144 Samuelson, Joan 2:49:08 ME Freeport Livestrong

"After Retirement" Section

According to the Portland Press Herald, in an interview with Joan in advance of the 2008 trials, that race was to be her retirement race. What supports the information here that she retired years earlier?--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 19:10, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Joanie hasn't retired yet. The article notes that she competed this year in Maine and she was in Billings, Montana this week doing a clinic and noting that she still runs considerable mileage.Activist (talk) 19:23, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Name change/move

The article should be under Joan Benoit Samuelson, her married name, which is what she is always called in the news. She registered for the 2008 Olympic trials under "Joan Samuelson" (or they dropped her middle name from the listings). She hasn't been called Joan Benoit since the 80s.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 00:19, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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