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Why Olympic distance runners might be flocking to Flagstaff ahead of L.A. Games
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — For centuries the snow-capped San Francisco Peaks, which tower over the high desert of northern Arizona, have held sacred meaning for more than a dozen Native American tribes. To the Navajo “the summit that never melts” was a place …