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PARIS — This year, the women, not the men, will have the honor of closing out the Olympic track meet with the marathon. It's a break with tradition that stamps an exclamation point on how much has changed over the last 40 years. Organizers of the Paris Games are using the Sunday marathon as another way to highlight the conquering of a long-sought benchmark at the Olympics; these are the first Summer Games to have an equal number of men and women competing. Sifan Hassan from the Netherlands is looking to add another Olympic medal in Paris after winning bronze in the 5,000 and the 10,000.
