After Eliud Kipchoge’s world-record win, is the two-hour marathon in sight?

A sub-two-hour time once seemed like a dream, but the Kenyan runner’s astonishing time at the Berlin race means it no longer feels far fetched

On Sunday, Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge obliterated the marathon world record by over a minute, running a time of 2 hours 1 minute and 39 seconds in Berlin. To anyone who has ever attempted to run 26.2 miles, that is insanely fast.

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