Friday, January 21, 2011

Will records tumble at Dubai Marathon?

A new starting line, record number of runners and an elite field but whether Haile Gebrselassie’s three-year-old record will be broken at the Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon, is the million dollar question.

The only person perhaps capable of breaking that record of 2 hours 03 minutes 59 seconds is Gebrselassie himself, but the 37-year-old Ethiopian quit athletics for good in November last year after pulling out 16kms through the New York marathon.

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