For a distance runner, there's no place in the world like Flagstaff. said Matt Baxter, who broke New Zealand's national indoor record at 5,000 meters after moving to Arizona.
More than 240 Olympians and Paralympians made the winding two-hour drive up Interstate-17 from Phoenix to Flagstaff to train at altitude on their way to the Tokyo Games three years ago.
And the number of Olympians who either lived or trained in Flagstaff before going to Paris this month - a list that includes U.S. distance runners Nico Young, Grant Fisher, and Woody Kincaid plus Guatemalan national record-holder Luis Grijalva - could be even larger.
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