Talk:New York City Marathon
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[edit] External links
I've removed several links from the "External links" section, which were largely to charity organizations which use the Marathon as a fund-raising conduit. I'm all in favor of charities, but I removed the links because I don't think they offer readers any more information about the NYCM. If anyone has a better argument for keeping/including those links, please post; otherwise I will continue removing them when they appear. - Pjmorse 20:34, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Largest Marathon in the world?
On the New york Marathon page it states that it is the largest Marthon in the World, however, the London Marathon page states that it is the largest marathon in the world. Does anyone know which one is correct?Gbarnes 5 12:45, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
- Marathon size is counted a number of different ways. The important ones are number of entrants (i.e. bib numbers assigned,) number of starters (how many of those actually cross the starting line,) and number of finishers (slightly smaller than number of starters.) NYCM is cagey about their number of entrants, because they have permits for a number of places (notably Fort Wadsworth at the start) which state a maximum number of people covered by the permit. The NYRR's Lebow-esque approach is to assign more bibs than the permits allow and count on field shrinkage to bring the number of starters under the permitted limit, but if they misjudge the amount of field shrinkage, they don't want to publicize it.
- That said, a good place to research marathon sizes is the Road Running Information Center of Running USA. According to them, in 2005 (the most recent year of their statistics) the NYCM had 36,856 finishers; London had 35,260. I'll add that cite to the article. --Pjmorse 14:15, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
- Chicago's wiki page also says it is the largest marathon in the world. Chicago is accepting 45,000 entries this year which is more than any other marathon. Even with no shows and DNFs this years Chicago my eclipse the number of finishers of NYC's 2006 marathon.
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- I'll fix Chicago's page unless it cites a source. If they have more finishers this year, obviously we'll have to change it back. --Pjmorse 20:20, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Youngest runner?
Did a quick google search, but couldn't find anything about this "Scott Black". Anybody have a reference? Thanks. Mathmo Talk 07:01, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
I've removed the reference as I couldn't find anything. If you are in doubt about the veracity of Wiki's content, and you do a legitimate search and find nothing then you can either put {{fact}} next to the statement, or simply remove it. If it is true then somebody will put it back, hopefully with a source. SilkTork *SilkyTalk 13:06, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
