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World Meeting - ahead of the times

Back in the late 1980s/early 1990s IFK Sodertalje held something called the World Meeting. They were trying to make the sport more professional and more spectator and TV friendly. Here is the map from the 1991 World Meeting: The race was a 3-leg relay. I remember watching the start. The…
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first leg runners ran along a road, preceded by a car (or was it a truck?) with a TV camera on it. My

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