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Run a race with a friend. After the race, decide on a fair handicap
(the distance one of you gets to start ahead of the other faster person) for the winner, then race again. Who wins the second race?

Look up the winning times for runners, Marion Jones (US) and Cathy Freeman (Australia), in the 2000 Olympics. How do these times compare with the world records for the distances they ran?

 

 

 

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