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Off Topic Sub 2 hour marathon

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  1. balkan tiger

    balkan tiger Well-Known Member

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    Eliud Kipchoge runs a marathon in under 2 hours.

    Had a bit of help mind.
     
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    Sub 2 hour marathon. Astounding feat.<party><party><party>
     
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  3. tigerscanada

    tigerscanada Well-Known Member

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    Hell of an effort - smashed the 4 minute mile easily then <laugh>
     
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    balkan tiger Well-Known Member

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    Don't know what you mean mate <whistle>
     
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    I blame decimilization :emoticon-0105-wink:
     
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  6. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    Cloud over every thing like this now
    Good job mo farah is Team GB with the **** swirling around him now
    Not that you’ll see much reporting of it
     
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  8. City Man

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    Surprised someone hasn't tried to claim him as British yet.
     
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  9. BlackAndAmberGambler

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    Piece of piss, I did a full bag of Funsized Twixes in 20 minutes once.:emoticon-0119-puke:
     
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  10. John Ex Aberdeen now E.R.

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    It won't be going into the record books because of the pacemakers. Still some achievement though.
     
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    So having a pacemaker ruled you out of breaking the record? Bonkers, he did the full run in a record time. Guess Roger Bannister didn’t break the 4 minute mile record then as he had Christopher Brasher, I think, as a pacemaker.
     
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    It is an amazing feat of running but - it really was 'contrived' beyond belief; he was the only contestant in the run, surrounded at all times by 7 pacemakers who were assembled in aerodynamic formation (40 odd in all), they were all following an electric car set to complete the course in 1 hr 59 mins 50 secs (the car was also another wind blocker); his drinks etc were brought to him so he didn't have to veer off the perfect line - a line generated by lasers from the pace car showing grids on the road no less. There were other assists too.

    It's a great feat of running, way too contrived for me though.
     
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    Oddly enough it was only the coach and Doctor ??????
     
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  14. Ernie Shackleton

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    The **** did it with a pacemaker?


    FFS cut him some slack.


    That's some achievement post heart surgery.
     
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  15. The B&S Fanclub

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    I wouldn't be surprised if those at the top of world athletics kicked this into touch...Hardly race conditions, a flat, circuit course with banking and a team of pace makers. Me thinks that the Seb Coe's of this world are bound to throw it out.
     
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    He knew before the race that this wouldn’t be recognised as a new world record, that wasn’t his aim, he wanted to prove it was possible for a marathon to be run in less than two hours.

    Official or not, he’ll still be remember as the first man to achieve it.
     
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    Seb Coe is part of the gravy train that took the recent athletics championships to Doha and is also slack on the fight against drug cheats in Athletics.
     
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    Finally seen a full news report about this (& impressive) Excellent PR for Inneos - should this be in climate strike thread?
     
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    Anybody got his contact details, I'm looking for a pacemaker!
     
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    News not seen on SKY or BBC. UKDA (Britains anti doping organisation) is refusing to hand over Mo Farah's test samples to WADA the world anti doping organisation.
     
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