How has the Olympic marathon changed since 1972?
I don’t think it’s changed for the athletes except the professionalism. When I won, there was no prize money. Technically, people weren’t supposed to get appearance fees. One of my law partners and I wrote the trust fund that opened up the sport to prize money. It’s called the TAC Trust. We got it passed in 1981. It’s the concept of athletes being able to win money, put it in an individual trust, and get it out on a schedule that would make them competitive with Eastern Europeans who were government supported. That evolved into professionalism. But in ‘72, winning a gold medal wasn’t a financial sinecure that it can be now. Has that been a good thing? I think it all depends on the individual. It has become very good for people who want to use the notoriety in a positive way, beyond their own financial gain. My way was to do things like evolve the trust fund; to be the first to do a commercial on television to open that up for endorsements; I was the founding chairman of USADA, [the Uni
