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The Electability Of The Long Distance Runner: Bernie Sanders Casually Brags About His Sports Background

Related Topics: Bernie Sanders, Basketball, Running

It was the Iowa CNN town hall “debate” where Bernie Sanders was asked what kind of athlete he used to be. He fondly recalled his youth basketball days, where, he says, he was a star player on his Brooklyn grammar school basketball team. This appears to be true. Newspaper accounts tell of his school, PS 197, winning the Burrough Championship, just as Sanders recalled on CNN.

He then revealed that in high school he was a long distance runner, who “won several races.”

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