Video: What Is Race Walking?
- By Steve Godwin
- Published Jan. 30, 2012
Two of the top race walkers in the country, John Nunn and Tim Seaman, explain some of the rules behind this longtime Olympic event, and describe what their bodies go through when walking in a 31-mile race at under 8 minutes a mile.
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