I could think about whatever I wanted, and I was safe.”
I found I just loved moving across the ground. Now as an adult to look back, I realize, I think had this instinct of not passing this along, and I tell all young kids, when they start in sports, I say, ‘Try all sports,’ because there is a biomechanical movement that every person loves and enjoys the most, and mine happened to be running. I think it was part of my first way to not be like my father. “It was something he didn't do, he wasn't an athletic person. That really is how I got into the running: to minimize stress and cope, rather than to have goals of going to the Olympics.” And then I realized this was really stress relief for me, because, when I was out there, out of the house, running, he couldn't get me. And then his modus operandi was then decide which child he was going to discipline, and we would wait for him, and we'd hear him come up the stairs, and we'd just have to see into whose room he would go and who he would drag out of bed and beat.Īnd I found, that at about age 8, I began to spend a lot of time out of the house, and I started to run. He would come home and interrogate my mother late at night. I realized at 5 (years old) when he was beating me up one day. My conclusion really is he's one of those few human beings who didn't want his children to exceed him. And then also to stifle any creativity or goals or anything else about them.
His main purpose at home was to discipline his children. “He was a totally different person when he came home. More from Here & Now's series on life after the Olympics. Shorter discusses his life and his memoir, "My Marathon," with Here & Now's Eric Westervelt. and served as a spokesman against athletes using performance enhancing drugs. But his public persona hid a dark secret: the years of abuse he and his siblings suffered at the hands of their father, Dr. He later helped establish the first anti-doping agency in the U.S. (AP) This article is more than 6 years old.įrank Shorter won the Olympic Marathon in Munich in 1972, and four years later added a silver medal to that gold when he finished second in the marathon at the games in Montreal. 10, 1972, and his teammate and countryman Ken Moore, who placed fourth, face the cheering crowds after the event. Frank Shorter, left, winner of the grueling Olympic marathon race in Munich on Sept.
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