Pereira, Cabral, and the Portuguese training method

Update: 2025-06-11

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How Carlos Lopes won Portugal’s first gold medal at the Olympics (1984) and ran a WR 2:07:12 marathon a year later at age 38.

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Pereira, Cabral, and the Portuguese training method

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Jonathan Mederos

Pereira, Cabral, and the Portuguese training method