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Thursday, 11 November 2010 04:00

Dick Beardsley will be the featured speaker at the 11th Annual Tri Night Banquet, presented by OptumHealth Performance.

Press Release - Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN, November 11th, 2010

The Minnesota triathlon and duathlon community is proud to welcome Minnesota native Dick Beardsley as the featured speaker at Tri Night 2010 on Saturday December 4th, 2010. For a brief moment in the early '80s Dick Beardsley became the most famous runner / athlete in the world - by losing a race. In the 1982 Boston Marathon, Beardsley, foiled by a motorcycle that cut him off near the end, finished two seconds behind Alberto Salazar in a contest often called one of the most memorable in marathon..

history. It was the closest finish ever at the world's premier marathon, and both runners broke the course and the American records. But it is Dick