Sabastian Sawe makes history at the London Marathon as the first person to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race.
  • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.orgOPEnglish
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    9 days ago

    The first three runners were all faster than the previous world record.
    So the third place finisher broke the previous world record, but the other two in front of him broke it even harder.

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      7 days ago

      But how could he have made history if the other front runners already smashed that? This seems a little weird phrasing

      • jama211@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        17 hours ago

        You’re taking this a little too literally. The point is you run a sub 2 marathon and only don’t get the record because someone broke the record literally 20 something seconds before you reached the line. That’s gotta hurt somehow