http://sportsnavi.yahoo.co.jp/special/london/athletics/text/201207240008-spnavi.html translated and edited by Brett Larner An editorial by Yasuhiro Kato All three of this year's London Olympics men's marathoners, Arata Fujiwara (2:07:48, Miki House, Takushoku Univ.), Kentaro Nakamoto (2:08:53, Team Yasukawa Denki, Takushoku Univ.) and Ryo Yamamoto (2:08:44, Team Sagawa Express, Chuo Univ.) are graduates of Kanto Region universities. All ran the Hakone Ekiden [see below] as collegiates, but not a single one of them ever won a stage. No matter which of them you look at, they were all nondescript student athletes with few achievements. Fujiwara was frequently injured, and with the Takushoku University of that era not strong enough to maintain a stable position in the seeded bracket he only ran Hakone twice. His Takushoku teammate Nakamoto only made it once. In high school Yamamoto was a regular in the finals at the National High ...