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'Yoko Shibui Enters 'Diet Camp'' - A Nice IAAF Rewrite (updated)

http://www.spikesmag.com/news/yokoshibuientersdietcamp377.aspx

The IAAF's spikesmag.com evidently liked my translation of the two articles about Shibui's Kunming training camp, published Apr. 6, as they've appropriated my translation of her quotes verbatim, lightly rewritten the rest, and republished it under their own byline without credit either to me or to the authors of the source articles. Take a look and, if you appreciate the work I put into JRN, feel free to leave them a comment.

As I say, clearly I think, in the 'About My Translations' box to the right, I'm happy to have the professional-quality translation work I provide free on this blog, at considerable cost to my free time, quoted and utilized by others in the somewhat idealistic interest of making some mostly invisible aspects of the great world of Japanese distance running accessible to those elsewhere and ask only to be acknowledged as the translator.

This is not the first time this has happened, b…