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Kyle Busch steals Bristol win as Reddick and Briscoe crash

(AP) — Kyle Busch tive) guy who backs into ev- his move in the third turn as
backed into the record ery (expletive) win that he he tried to slide inside past
book by stealing a win at ever (expletive) gets.” Reddick.
dirt-covered Bristol Mo-
tor Speedway. When it was Busch’s turn to The move backfired and both
inherit a win, he had no prob- cars spun out of control and
That’s what he’d say if it had lem collecting the checkered Busch, who was running
been anyone else, right? flag. third, simply skirted through
for his first win.
Busch won his first race of “We got one, you know?”
the season Sunday night by Busch said. “It doesn’t mat- Busch won for the ninth time
sliding past the leaders as Ty- ter how you get them, it’s all in Cup at Bristol — first time
ler Reddick and Chase Bris- about getting them.” in two dirt races — and was
coe spun racing for the win. booed by the smattering of
Busch tied Hall of Famer Later, he acknowledged that fans who waited out two rain
Richard Petty’s NASCAR re- he did “back into one” but delays that pushed the first Labonte out of the way for
cord for victories in consecu- said it felt good. race on Easter Sunday since the win. “I was going to spin out, I
tive years at 18. 1989 to nearly four hours. think, either way,” Briscoe
Reddick was chasing the first Reddick finished second and said. “I’m sorry. I just wanted
But his tune was far differ- Cup win of his career, led “I mean, man, I feel like Dale faulted himself for not hold- to let you know. I am sorry. I
ent at Bristol than it was six 99 of the 250 laps, and con- Earnhardt Sr. right now. This ing off Briscoe. Briscoe went wish you would have won.”
weeks ago when Alex Bow- trolled the race from the final is awesome. I didn’t do any- from two turns away from
man won at Las Vegas and an restart with 24 laps remain- thing,” Busch said of the the win to 22nd and imme- Reddick was understanding
irate Busch complained that ing. Lapped traffic gave Bris- 1999 race in which Earnhardt diately found Reddick on pit and admitted he should have
Bowman is “the same (exple- coe a shot and Briscoe made was booed for bumping Terry road to apologize. been more defensive.
Olympic champ Jepchirchir wins 50th women’s Boston Marathon

(AP) — Reigning Olympic cham- Evans Chebet completed the Kenyan their journey. Athletes from Russia group,” said Chebet, who finished
pion Peres Jepchirchir capped sweep, breaking free in the men’s race and Belarus were disinvited in re- fourth in London last fall. “I observed
the celebration of a half-century with about four miles to go to finish sponse to the invasion of Ukraine. that my counterparts were nowhere
of women in the Boston Mara- in 2:06:51 for his first major mara- near me and that gave me the motiva-
thon with a finish to top them all. thon victory. Gabriel Geay of Tanza- Forty-four Ukrainians had registered tion.”
nia was second, 30 seconds back, and for the race; only 11 started. Those
The 28-year-old Kenyan won a see- defending champion Benson Kipruto who were unable to make it to Bos- This race marked the 50th anniver-
saw sprint down the stretch on Mon- was third. ton were offered a deferral or refund. sary of Nina Kuscsik’s victory in the
day, when the world’s oldest and first official women’s race. (But not
most prestigious annual marathon Daniel Romanchuk of Champaign, “Whatever they want to do, they the first woman to finish: That honor
returned to its traditional spring start Illinois, won his second career wheel- can do,” Boston Athletic Association belongs to Bobbi Gibb, who first ran
for the first time since the onset of chair title in 1:26:58. Switzerland’s President Tom Grilk said. “Run this in 1966 among the unofficial runners
the coronavirus pandemic. Manuela Schar won her second year, run next year. You want a pup- known as bandits.)
straight Boston crown and fourth py? Whatever. There is no group we
On the 50th anniversary of the first overall, finishing in 1:41:08. want to be more helpful to.” At Wellesley College, the women’s
official women’s race, Jepchirchir school near the halfway point, the
traded places with Ethiopia’s Aba- Sharing a Patriots’ Day weekend with Jepchirchir and Yeshaneh, who was iconic “scream tunnel” was back af-
bel Yeshaneh eight times in the final the Red Sox home opener — the third in New York last fall, spent most ter the pandemic-induced absence
mile before pulling ahead for good city’s other sporting rite of spring — of the morning running shoulder to — and louder than ever. One specta-
on Boylston Street and finishing in 2 more than 28,000 runners returned shoulder — or even closer: Just after tor in Wellesley held a sign that read
hours, 21 minutes, 1 second. to the streets from Hopkinton to Co- the 25-kilometer marker, the Ethio- “50 Years Women Running Boston,”
pley Square six months after a smaller pian’s eyes wandered from the course along with names of the eight who
“I was feeling she was strong. I pushed and socially distanced event that was and she drifted into Jepchirchir. broke the gender barrier in 1972.
it,” said Jepchirchir, who earned the only fall race in its 126-year his-
$150,000 and the traditional gilded tory. Yeshaneh reached out to apologize, Five of the original pioneers returned
olive wreath to go with her Olympic and the two clasped each other’s arms for this year’s celebration, includ-
gold medal and 2021 New York City Fans waved Ukrainian flags in sup- as they continued on. ing Valerie Rogosheske, who fin-
Marathon title. “I fell behind. But I port of the runners whose 26.2-mile ished sixth in ’72; she ran alongside
didn’t lose hope.” run Monday was the easiest part of “In running, we understand each her daughters this year and served as
other and we maybe somebody came the honorary starter for the women’s
and bumps, but it’s OK,” Jepchirchir elite field.
said. “It was not rivalism; it was just
an accident.” Rogosheske, who wore Bib No. 1972,
said at the starting line that she had
Beaten, Yeshaneh finished four sec- been planning to hide in the bushes
onds back. Kenya’s Mary Ngugi fin- and run as a bandit 50 years ago until
ished third for the second time in six women got the go-ahead a few weeks
months, following her podium in before the race.
October after the 125th race was de-
layed, canceled and delayed again. “It’s a reminder that we’ve got it pret-
ty easy,” said 2018 winner Des Lin-
About 20 men stayed together — with den, who finished 13th on Monday.
American CJ Albertson leading for “Fifty years ago, they were breaking
much of the way — before Chebet barriers and doing the hard part.
and Geay broke from the pack com-
ing out of Heartbreak Hill. Chebet “It’s really not lost on me that there’s
pulled away a couple of miles later. 126 years of race history here, and
we’re ‘Rah! Rah!’-ing 50,” she said.
“We had communicated earlier, all of “But you can’t look back, you look
us. We wanted to keep running as a forward.”