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Botched Edmonton Marathon costs 13 runners chance at Boston Marathon

A botched racecourse that was longer than it should have been for the Edmonton Marathon has cost 13 runners a chance to compete in the prestigious Boston Marathon.

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Summary based on reporting from CBC News and Sportsnet.

Coverage at a glance

  • First observed by CurrentWire: Sportsnet · Sep 3, 2026 at 7:30 PM ET
  • Coverage span: 14h 8m
  • Coverage: 2 reports from 2 independent publications
  • Coverage growth: 1 → 2 publications in 13h 59m
Botched Edmonton Marathon costs 13 runners chance at Boston Marathon
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Automated coverage analysis

Generated automatically from the coverage listed on this page. CurrentWire adds no editorial claims.

Source mix

2 independent editorial domains

What coverage breadth measures

Coverage

2 publications are covering this story.

How coverage developed

  1. First report from Sportsnet

  2. Reported by CBC News

  3. Story updateCBC News joined coverage

  4. Story updateCoverage went from 1 to 2 sources

  5. Story updateHeadline updated

How CurrentWire compiled this story

CBC News (www.cbc.ca), a Tier A publisher, filed this report on . CurrentWire published this page 29 minutes later, on .

Signal breakdown

CurrentWire ranked this story 78.7 of 100 in the snapshot this page was rendered from.

Freshness
27.7 of 35
Source authority
20 of 20
Coverage breadth
8.5 of 20
Geographic relevance
10 of 10
Story prominence
10 of 10
Velocity
2.5 of 5

Strongest signal: source authority, 20 of 20. How each signal is calculated.

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