David Carradine and Sly Stallone running down pedestrians for bonus points in a nihilistic cross-country race.

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From 18 to 20 February, the park also stages the Gatineau Loppet, a three-day international cross-country ski race which plays host to 3, 000 skiers from about 20 countries.

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Di Centa, brother of former Olympic champion Manuela di Centa, is the first athlete from outside Scandinavia or the former Soviet Union to win the Olympic 50km race, the most prestigious on the cross-country program.

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But Flanagan never ran her hometown race even as she was building a celebrated cross-country career that took her to three Olympics.

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Take a look at just about any major endurance race of the past 30 years, everything from the Boston Marathon to the World Cross Country Championships to the Summer Olympics, and you'll see runners from Kenya, men and women, standing on the winner's podium.

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