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Olympic runner Emily Infeld's harrowing three-year ordeal with a stalker

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Editor's note: This story contains descriptions of stalking and harassment.

EMILY INFELD, ONE of the nation's top distance runners, remembers strolling with her fiancé through downtown Portland, Oregon, on a sunny day in June 2020 when her phone rang. It was a security team member she had been set up with through her sponsor, Nike.

"We have some troubling news," she remembered the man said. "Your stalker ... has rented a place 2 miles away from your house.

"And he has posted on LinkedIn that he was coming to Portland specifically to kill you.