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A fact from Olympic Runners appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 October 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Olympic Runners were widely assumed to be an American funk band until their identities were revealed to be British session musicians including Mike Vernon and Pete Wingfield?

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Plagiarism?

This is little more than cut-and-paste from the AllMusic entry. Nicmart (talk) 04:58, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That comment is unfair. Certainly Allmusic was a major source, and is cited as such, but other sources were also used and are also cited. Ghmyrtle (talk) 11:29, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Missing refs

The following references were present in the pre-cleanup version of this article:

Gonzalez at AllMusic - referencing the fact that band members Lefleur, Chandler and Harper were also simultaneously part of Gonzalez.
Roberts, p 607: Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 607. ISBN 1-904994-10-5., referencing "Eighteen With a Bullet"'s #7 rank in the charts

MLauba (talk) 09:53, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Ghmyrtle (talk) 10:08, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]