FIVE HUNDRETHS OF A SECOND! That is the winning margin in the men’s 2007 Chicago Marathon! Patrick Ivuti of Kenya pips Jaouad Gharib of Morocco on the line in what must surely be the greatest finish in marathon running! When Paul Tergat and Hendrik Ramaala raced it out in New York two years ago, that […]
Archives for October 2007
Women vs. Men in the marathon
Last weekend, Haile Gebrselassie knocked 29 seconds off the four-year old marathon world record with a . As tends to happen after these performances, everyone began questioning what the limits to human performance might be? Is it possible to break 2-hours? Geb himself spoke of his own feeling that he would run 2:03 at Berlin […]
Haile Gebrselassie – “I can run 2:03, but I believe one day two hours will be broken”.
In the last few days, we’ve and the of the magnificent marathon world record of Haile Gebrselassie in Berlin. In the aftermath of that race, there has been much hype about the prospects for the world record moving forward, and soon. People are suddenly talking about a sub-2:00 clocking, and even Haile himself has been […]
Cricket – Twenty20 “fallout”
The Twenty20 Cricket World Cup is now a thing of the past, seeming to have departed as quickly as it came, and as rapidly as a ball off Yuvraj’s bat over a mid-wicket boundary. The game continues to battle its way through the complexity of what this new and (potentially) improved version of the game […]
Haile Gebrselassie World Record 2007
OK, so in we promised a more detailed look at the splits from the amazing World Record performance by Haile Gebrselassie in the Berlin Marathon. In case you missed it – 2:04.26! Truth is, these are still “unofficial splits”, but I suspect that the difference (if any) will be a matter of seconds, and so […]
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