Road to Rio is paved with poetry for runner Alexi Pappas​

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BY Mary Jo Brooks  August 8, 2016 at 1:28 PM EDT

Alexi Pappas says she was a serious poet before she became a serious runner. The 26-year-old athlete, who will compete in the women’s 10,000 meter at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, was a poetry major at Dartmouth College.