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D’Amato: Can Gwen Jorgensen pull off one of the greatest feats in Olympic history? Don’t bet against her.

Noted: She’d run in college at the University of Wisconsin and, of course, had trained for the running leg of the triathlon. But this was something altogether different. Unlike elite marathoners, Jorgensen didn’t have thousands of miles in her legs. She’d never trained for a marathon, had never run more than 40 miles in a week. After giving birth to a son, Stanley, in August 2017, she would have less than three years to make up all that ground.