Windsor, Bridge and Tunnel Are Back for 25th Marathon
The Detroit Free Press / Flagstar Bank Marathon will again be run across international borders. Heath Meriwether, Publisher of the Detroit Free Press, announced the course at a Greektown Casino press conference. The course for the 25th running of the Marathon on October 6, 2002, will take runners over the Ambassador Bridge, along the Windsor waterfront, and through the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel. The course, designed by Doug Kurtis, will continue around Belle Isle, go through historic Indian Village, through Greektown, then finish inside Ford Field, the new home for the Detroit Lions.

According to race director Patricia Ball, Immigration and Naturalization Service officials see the Marathon as a symbol of safe and open borders, as a connection to the partnership between the United States and Canada and the sisterhood of the cities of Windsor and Detroit. In fact, Assistant District Director of the INS, Daphiney Caganap, will be running the marathon herself.

The INS will have a booth at the Marathon Expo to allow runners to register until the day before the event. For details on the course see http://www. detroitfreepressmarathon.com