A good week

Kenyan long-distance phenomenon Eliud Kipchoge shaved two minutes off his own world marathon record to become the first person to break the two-hour barrier, clocking 1:59:40 for the 26.2-mile event in Vienna, Austria. He achieved this milestone with the help of 41 runners pacing him in what was not an open event, so it does not count as an official world record. But it was a moment in athletics history that Kipchoge likened to Roger Bannister’s feat in breaking the four-minute mile barrier in 1954...

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