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Geoffrey Mutai Breaks Marathon World Record 2:03:02

The New York marathon Geoffrey Mutai has breaking world record. Kenya 30 years, ran 2:03:02, beating the previous record of 2 minutes and 37 seconds. Mutai won the Boston Marathon earlier this year and set the record for this race too. If you read this, Geoffrey, congratulations! If you are not Geoffrey Mutai, return to work, the provision failed.

In April, the fastest race in history 26.2 miles: 2:03:02 in Boston. Does not count as a world record because the course is considered too direct and too low.

The finalists of the second and third Sunday also broke the old record. Emmanuel Mutai of Kenya colleagues (no relation), the London Marathon champion, was 1:22 behind. Tsegaye Kebede of Ethiopia was third.

Since dragged London Marathon champion Mary Keitany about 2 ½ minutes in the 15-mile mark, but his past with about a mile. The Dice won in 2:23:15 27 years - almost a minute better than his previous personal best.

Buzunesh Deba Ethiopian colleagues, who lives in the Bronx, was the second of his first podium in a marathon major, four seconds behind. It was the second closest final of the women in the history of the race.

Geoffrey Mutai Breaks Marathon World Record 2:03:02

Marco Simoncelli Crash Shocking Video (Other Camera)

Simoncelli was involved in a fatal accident with Colin Edwards and Valentino Rossi during the 2011 Malaysian GP at the Sepang International Circuit. In fourth position at the end of lap one, during lap two his bike veered across the track and straight into the path of Edwards and Rossi.

The race was immediately red-flagged. Simoncelli lay stricken on the track after the crash, his helmet having come off during the incident. He was taken by ambulance to the circuit's medical centre, but at 10:32 am local time it was announced he had died from his injuries.

The 24-year-old Italian lost control of his Honda at turn 11 four minutes into the race, but his bike regained partial grip and swerved across the track.

Simoncelli's fatality raised the number of recorded deaths in MotoGP to 47 since it was founded in 1949.

MotoGP race director Paul Butler pledged to investigate the circumstances surrounding the accident while Sepang circuit chairman Mokhzani Mahathir voiced his condolences and said it was unfortunate that a death occurred for the first time since the circuit opened in 1999.

Marco Simoncelli Crash Shocking Video (Other Camera)
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News source : http://www.telegraph.co.uk