The Slowest Generation: Younger Athletes Are Racing With Less Concern About Time

The Slowest Generation: Younger Athletes Are Racing With Less Concern About Time - WSJ.com:
"Old-timers are suggesting that performance-related apathy among young amateur athletes helps explain why America hasn't won an Olympic marathon medal since 2004.
Of the two Americans who won marathon medals that year, one—Deena Kastor, who is now 40—was the top finishing American woman at the marathon World Championships in Moscow last month.
The other—38-year-old Meb Keflezighi—was the top American male finisher at the London Olympics marathon last year.
Hunter Kemper, the 37-year-old winner of last month's Chicago Triathlon, remains arguably America's top triathlete as he aims for his fifth Olympics."