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10-27-2007, 04:46 AM

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Originally Posted by MMM View Post
If you want to call them "students". These were dudes from Kenya and other places in Africa, mostly, who were given scholarships at Japanese Universities, and they didn't speak Japanese. There surely were incentives for them to come, and I guess it sucks for them, but it's not like they had were kicked out of some Japanese university they had applied and got accepted to.

The few Japanese I talked to about it called it poor sportmanship for those Universities to ship in runners specifiacally for that one race.
But what about the students that are not from Africa but are still foreign too?
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