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Feature: Marathon rhinos still being hunted for their horns

a personal beastThis running season, at least 20 rare marathon rhinos will be killed by poachers hoping to cash in on the rare medicines market, campaigner say.

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Posted: Apr 22nd, 2013
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Thatcher a surprise entrant in London Marathon

Thatcher, a first-time marathoner, is relieved to be still in the field after an interrupted preparation marred by ligament problems and then death.

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Posted: Apr 20th, 2013
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London Marathon spectator sets new record for endurance clapping

‘I started clapping when the elite women frontrunners went past this morning and haven’t stopped since.’

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Posted: Apr 17th, 2011
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Lockerbie Bomber to run London Marathon dressed as Mickey Mouse

never felt fitterIn a move which is likely to put further strain on Anglo-US relations, it has emerged that Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali Megrahi, is to enter the 2011 London Marathon dressed as popular Disney character Mickey Mouse.

Despite an earlier cancer scare, Megrahi has been passed as fit to compete by the same doctors who over-estimated the size of his original tumour and is said to be feeling ‘totally up for it’ and ‘relishing the challenge’.

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Posted: Jul 22nd, 2010
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Anger as motorbike cop wins London Marathon

There has been anger and disbelief throughout the world of athletics after a police motorcyclist won the London Marathon.
PC Andy Stanton, a traffic officer with the Metropolitan police based at Southwark, crossed the finish line in a time of two hours, four minutes and 34 seconds. He beat the previous record, set by Ethiopian athlete Samuel Wanjiru in 2009, by over half a minute.

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Posted: Apr 26th, 2010
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