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Wanyonyi beats Arop but Rudisha’s world record remains intact
- Mark for 800m challenged at Diamond League final
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David Rudisha’s revered 800m world record from the London 2012 Games is safe for another year after a kamikaze attempt on it at the Diamond League final went up in a blaze of lactic acid and burning lungs.
On a cold night in Brussels, the thoughts of many athletes were inevitably on getting through a final night of competition before a well-earned rest at the end of a thrilling but long season. However, the Canadian Marco Arop had other ideas.
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