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Running (Olympic) rings in Beijing

Runners do everything from making all-important Starbucks run to making sure the talent get to the set on time. Their work can from the gritty (cleaning up detritus) to the glamorous (chauffeuring the likes of Kobe Byrant and Venus and Serena Williams to and fro in golf carts) all in the space of a single exhausting, exhilarating day. They're the people the TODAY show couldn't have gone to Beijing

Runners do everything from making all-important Starbucks run to making sure the talent get to the set on time. Their work can from the gritty (cleaning up detritus) to the glamorous (chauffeuring the likes of Kobe Byrant and Venus and Serena Williams to and fro in golf carts) all in the space of a single exhausting, exhilarating day. They're the people the TODAY show couldn't have gone to Beijing without, even though viewers never get to see them. Never, that is, until now, when TODAY's faithful runners finally get a chance to tell all about their "crazy" "stressful," "laughable," "kind of surreal" and "busy, busy, busy, busy" lives.

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