MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Medtronic Foundation and Twin Cities Marathon, Inc., today announced former Olympian and marathon world record holder Alberto Salazar will serve as the honorary captain of the 2008 Medtronic Global Heroes and will run in the Medtronic TC 10 Mile. Salazar will lead a group of 25 Global Heroes – long-distance runners who benefit from medical technology – who are preparing to run either the Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon or Medtronic TC 10 Mile on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008. Salazar had a Medtronic implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implanted following sudden cardiac arrest in 2007.
