A sub two-hour marathon one year later that wasn’t a race so much as a display of Platonic perfection. An absurd new world record-2:01:39-set in 2018 in Berlin. Even before his victory in Sapporo, the 36-year-old Kenyan had a marathon resume that defied comprehension: 12 victories in 14 starts. Earlier this month, after Eliud Kipchoge defended his Olympic title, it felt like we’d finally run out of superlatives for the most accomplished marathoner in history.
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