Friday, November 02, 2007
Williamsburg Yeshivah students will cheer on NYC Marathon runners this Sunday
The annual 26.2-mile (42.2-kilometer) race through all five boroughs gets under way Sunday with 38,000 runners, 12,000 volunteers and 2,000 medical personnel. There also will be about 2.5 million spectators and what Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne calls ``a highly visible police presence.'
The marathon, the highest-grossing single-day sporting event in New York City, boasts the largest field in marathoning, with the runners selected from more than 100,000 applicants. The race, sponsored by ING Groep NV, the largest Dutch financial- services company, will raise about $13 million for 20 charities, including Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the American Heart Association and the Central Park Conservancy.
Sixty-four elite runners on Sunday and 133 Olympic candidates tomorrow will supply as many as 10 bottles of fluids custom-designed for their needs. Tringali's team must protect the bottles from tampering and place them in precise order at exact locations for the runners to pick up as they pass.
People like Rabbi Joseph Weber in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, are providing other kinds of support. Because Sunday is a school day at Yeshiva Kehilath Yakov, where he is a director, the rabbi had to smooth over concerns in the largely Hasidic Jewish community about the intrusion of secular activities. Students will be released from classes long enough to cheer the marathoners when they come through.
``I don't know if there are any Hasidic runners -- though there might be -- but we applaud all of them,'' Weber said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=akNhJ4f3h3Tg&refer=us
The annual 26.2-mile (42.2-kilometer) race through all five boroughs gets under way Sunday with 38,000 runners, 12,000 volunteers and 2,000 medical personnel. There also will be about 2.5 million spectators and what Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne calls ``a highly visible police presence.'
The marathon, the highest-grossing single-day sporting event in New York City, boasts the largest field in marathoning, with the runners selected from more than 100,000 applicants. The race, sponsored by ING Groep NV, the largest Dutch financial- services company, will raise about $13 million for 20 charities, including Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the American Heart Association and the Central Park Conservancy.
Sixty-four elite runners on Sunday and 133 Olympic candidates tomorrow will supply as many as 10 bottles of fluids custom-designed for their needs. Tringali's team must protect the bottles from tampering and place them in precise order at exact locations for the runners to pick up as they pass.
People like Rabbi Joseph Weber in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, are providing other kinds of support. Because Sunday is a school day at Yeshiva Kehilath Yakov, where he is a director, the rabbi had to smooth over concerns in the largely Hasidic Jewish community about the intrusion of secular activities. Students will be released from classes long enough to cheer the marathoners when they come through.
``I don't know if there are any Hasidic runners -- though there might be -- but we applaud all of them,'' Weber said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=akNhJ4f3h3Tg&refer=us
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