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The Rock 'n' Roll Las Vegas Running Series is an annual half marathon foot-race run on the Las Vegas Strip and in parts of the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada.The former marathon distance race was one of the oldest marathons in the United States, having been held annually between 1967 - 2019.
On April 25, 2014, the Breeders' Cup announced that the Marathon would be discontinued. [6] The event was renamed to the Marathon Stakes as an undercard Breeders' Cup stakes race. The purse of the event was reduced from $500,000 to $200,000. The first year, the race was sponsored by the Las Vegas Tourism Board. [7]
In 2008, the Competitor Group took over Elite Racing, the company that had been organizing the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon. The following year, 2009, an internal audit revealed that the charity in whose name the race had been run, Elite Racing Foundation for Children, Education & Medical Research, had been improperly commingling funds with the for-profit Elite Racing.
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However, a 57-year-old male runner died Sunday after collapsing near the fifth mile of the marathon, the first death in the race since 2009. "Our condolences go out to him and his family.
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