Eliud Kipchoge breaks his own marathon world record and stands before the two-hour border

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The human being has no limits.

repeats it and repeats it

and who can deny it.

It is not a slogan, even less is it decoration for a cup, it is conviction.

Complete security.

A decade ago the Kenyan became convinced of this and set out on his journey to evangelize unbelievers.

As a tool, the strides of him.

As arguments, the records of him.

Some time ago he assured that the marathon could be run in less than two hours and that this would be the last test.

The human being has no limits.

Now no one can deny it.

In Berlin, Berlin again, the scene of so many conquests, again pushed humanity beyond the imaginable: this time one step, centimeters from that two-hour border.

Kipchoge did not cross it, but he saw it, recognized it, touched it.

Now there are only 69 seconds left, just over a minute.

At 37 years old, it will surely not be the Kenyan who surpasses her, but when someone does, sooner rather than later, the merit will be equally hers, for imagining that it was possible, for knowing it, for trying to prove it.

When Kipchoge began to run the most mythical distance, the scant 42 kilometers, in 2013, the world record was 2:03:38, held by his compatriot

.

This Sunday he left it at 2:01:09.

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