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Re:Eliud Kipchoge Breaks Two-Hour Marathon Barrier by sopooneo on Saturday October 12, 2019 @09:55PM (#21237769)
I often wonder in cases like that if those who followed suit were not so much emboldened as already nipping at the heels of the one who did it first.

To mix metaphor with reality, there was perhaps a pack speeding toward the finish line, and one crossed it first.

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Re:Eliud Kipchoge Breaks Two-Hour Marathon Barrier by laura2013 on Saturday October 12, 2019 @11:41PM (#21238210)
It's probably a mix of both. Surprisingly (to me), not many were able to break the sub 4min mile immediately after Bannister broke that record - Landy was the second to break the mark a month or so after but he was already working towards it. I read in the 20 year span after the record, only 300 runners were able to match the sub 4 feat.
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