Atlanta
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North Carolina runner Molly Born won the USA Track & Field (USATF) women’s half marathon championship by a slim margin of just over four seconds on Sunday in Atlanta – but the result is only half the story.
To say Born’s win was mired in controversy would be an understatement. That’s because the four runners that were outpacing the rest of the pack were led off the course by the guide vehicle with just over a mile remaining in the 13.1-mile race.
The quartet ran about 1 kilometer (roughly 0.62 miles) extra, according to one of the runners. By the time the mistake was realized and the wayward runners were led back onto the race course, they had been…