Bangkok's Botched Half-Marathon Offers T-shirt Apology

They ran an extra 4 miles on their half-marathon. And now all they're getting is a lousy T-shirt. Organizers offered the T-shirts after runners vented anger on social media following Sunday's Standard Chartered Bangkok Half-Marathon, which was mistakenly extended by almost 7 kilometers (4 miles). An error by race officials along the route meant participants ran 27.6 kilometers (17 miles), rather than the usual 21 kilometers (13 miles). Some 6,000 runners took part in the race...

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