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Forget the Olympics. This is a much better sports story–about two very good sports.

Heartwarming: It’s still unclear how or why the scrappy, apricot-colored dog with pointy ears showed up to the starting line of the 155-mile ultramarathon in June. The closest village was several miles away, and all that lay ahead was the vast, unforgiving Gobi Desert. Dion Leonard, a distance runner from Scotland, noticed the pup scampering alongside a group […]