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COMMENTATOR 1:
...and Bannister has done it.

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Now, he's out on his feet.
His coach and team manager tell
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he's achieved his ambition, a
mile in three minutes 59.4
seconds.

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COMMENTATOR 2: Jimmy Hines
is going to win the race!

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Jim Hines is the winner! Lennox
Miller, second, Charlie Greene,
third.

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Jim Hines is the world's
fastest human.

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COMMENTATOR 3: He breaks the
world record by an astonishing
margin,

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one minute and 17 seconds.

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And history has been made in
Berlin in astonishing style.

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CAPCOM:
You are go for landing. Over.

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[RADIO BEEPS]

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BUZZ ALDRIN: Roger. Understand.
Go for landing. 3,000 feet.

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CAPCOM: Altitude, 1600.
1400 feet, still looking very
good.

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ALDRIN: We're go.

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We're go.

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Contact light.

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OK, engine stop.

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CAPCOM: We copy you down, Eagle.

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NEIL ARMSTRONG:
It's one small step for man,

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one giant leap for mankind.

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REPORTER: Welcome to a foggy
morning here in Vienna, Austria,

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where one man will attempt to go
where no man has been before.

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Pushing his body and
mind to the limit

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with the aid of scientific
research and meticulous
preparation,

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Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge will hope
to run 26.2 miles in under two
hours

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and, in doing so, beat one of
the great sporting barriers of
our time.

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Kipchoge! Kipchoge!
Kipchoge! Kipchoge!

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[INSECTS CHIRP]

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[INSECTS CHIRP]

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[INSECTS CHIRP]

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[INSECTS CHIRP]

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[SINGING]

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[DOG BARKS]

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[SPEAKS SWAHILI]

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[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]

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[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

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[IN ENGLISH]

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[STARTING PISTOL]

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COMMENTATOR: Hicham El Guerrouj
coming home,

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Eliud Kipchoge, Kenenisa Bekele.

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Kipchoge in the red.
Can he get to the finals? Yes!

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Kipchoge edging out
Hicham El Guerrouj!

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COMMENTATOR 2: Eighteen years of
age. Eliud Kipchoge.

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You know, you hear about child
prodigies that can play the
piano.

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How can you do this at 18, when
you should be a senior in high
school?

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NDUHIU: You know, science
has it that the first man to run
42K

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below two hours,

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will do it in about 2075.

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That is 50 years from now.
He wants to do it now.

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His mind is... [EXHALES SHARPLY]
It's something you can't
describe.

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Berlin, 2015,

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he is running at kilometer-five
and the insoles are flapping
out.

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And you're saying...
this guy will drop from this

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because it will cause blisters.

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But he went on,
and actually set his personal
best.

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So you look at him and you say,
"OK, this is magical."

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[LAUGHS] Because you were seeing
somebody here with a mind that,

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if he puts it on something,
nothing will distract him from
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He will go for it.

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COMMENTATOR:
Kipchoge puts his foot down.

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The London Marathon
belongs to Eliud Kipchoge.

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Eliud Kipchoge.

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Eliud Kipchoge,
arguably the greatest ever.

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This will be
the first sub 2:02 clocking,

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and by a monstrous margin,
he is going to break the world
record.

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Particularly in marathon
running, he is the greatest
ever, by a long way.

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The quickest.
A man who knows how to win.

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COMMENTATOR: Sang is second.
One, two, three for Kenya.

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SANG: I was a fortunate guy

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to have had help from so many
people throughout my childhood
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All the way to being a runner.

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So, when I came back,
one of the things that I wanted
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was to give back
to the community.

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So I was actively involved in
helping young athletes in this
country.

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Somehow Eliud knew
that I was in this position,

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and he came to me
like any other youngster

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asking for a training plan.

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I would give him a training plan
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and he would come,
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to ask for more.

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But at one point he told me,

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"I've made the regional team
to go to the Nationals.

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I want to be guided."

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He also told me that he took up
running because he used to see
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at the high school, and said
why don't I try, like this guy?

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And that's why he was coming to
me for advice.

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So that was the beginning.

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COMMENTATOR:
He breaks the world record

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by an astonishing margin.

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One minute and 17 seconds.
Patrick Sang, his coach, his
companion

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for run after run, race after
race, year after year.

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SANG: It's just pure trust.

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He never asks what are we going
to do next week, next month,
tomorrow.

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And I think, without trust,
you cannot go far in this
business.

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All of us in life, we go through
different phases.

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And any situation
gives you lessons.

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And it depends on how you
interact with that background.

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Some will take it positively,
and use it positively.

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[BIRDS CALL]

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You know,
there have been so many theories

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why we have this
rich pool of talent.

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I believe strongly in the theory
of Darwin,

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the survival of the fittest.

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Most of our athletes
come from humble backgrounds.

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You have to fight,
you have to be strong.

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And I think in Kenya,

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the strictures that were laid
down by the colonial government

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to compete for the Empire
in the Empire Games

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meant a tradition was formed
under that unfriendly regime.

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And I think over time
they were perfected.

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COMMENTATOR:
Keino making this crowd roar.

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- [CROWD CHEERS]
- He is now 15 yards clear.

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When you pass a place,
you leave some dust in your
wake.

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And some dust can throw in
something glittering.

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I think that would be something
that glitters

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out of the unfriendly dust
that we experienced as a
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MAN: The people here in Kenya,
masses of the Africans here in
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are probably
roughly at about the same stage

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Great Britain was 500 years ago.

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We do not think that the normal
forms of democracy are suitable.

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COMMENTATOR: Simpson
in second place. O'Brien is
third.

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Wilkinson is fourth, and surely
no one will catch the African.

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SANG: People heard
through the radio

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that there was this great guy
who could run so fast,

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and his name was Kip Keino.

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COMMENTATOR: And Keino
is going faster,

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and Simpson is
going harder, too.

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SANG: He was a household name.

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There were songs sung about him.

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When we were kids, we used to
say, "Run like Kip Keino!"

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[CHILDREN CHATTER]

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You get one person from an area
running very well,

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then he becomes a mentor to many
others. There is an example to
follow.

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[EXCITED CHATTER]

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But then, there is dominance
on the Kalenjin group,

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particularly where long-distance
running is concerned.

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Every single time Eliud laces
his shoes and takes the guys out
for a run,

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he doesn't have to say anything.

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If you're in that camp,
all you have to do is see in his
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You know, his dedication

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and his will to just keep
pushing every single time.

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NDUHIU: For you to succeed
in the majority of these things,

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you have got to get a team
that believes in your dream.

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You are the vision carrier.

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But the cast that supports you
have also to believe

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and commit to the dream.

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CHUMO: Eliud is super consistent
in whatever he does.

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It's all about discipline.

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It's a storm of conditions that
come together to make this man
who he is.

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BRAILSFORD: He's got
an incredible physiology.

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He's got incredible efficiency
as an athlete.

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And he's got an absolutely
incredible mind. I mean, an
incredible mind.

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COE: He is the perfect shape.

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He has almost perfect posture.

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He puts his feet down...
and it's a dream.

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He almost floats.

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Athletics is an individual sport
and Eliud is able

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to make an individual sport
a kind of team sport

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with the way he
does things in camp.

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He feels it's a way of inspiring
people. That is something which
I see in Eliud

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that you don't see
in almost any other athlete.

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[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

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SANG: Running is
a taxing exercise.

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It takes a lot of energy
from the system.

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The set-up we have in Kaptagat

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is an ideal environment
where somebody

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can have around them the right
people to give them moral
support.

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CHOGE: Eliud has really helped
young people, and some of us

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because what you see from him
makes you believe

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that if this person can do this,
also I can do that.

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He is a mentor
to so many young athletes.

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Squat! Get into the
squatting position.

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TRAINER: Open. Close.

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Two. Close.

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Three. Close. Four. Close.

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[LAUGHTER]

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NJOROGE: People look up to him

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because he's not trying to be
something else.

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He's completely sincere.

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MAN: The camp is a
really special place.

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The athletes organize everything
in camp themselves.

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NJOROGE: It is very austere.

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But I think you then get
connected with what really
matters.

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You can get with very little.
All the other things are fluff.

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[THUNDER]

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CHOGE: There are so many things
that I've learned from him.

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One of them is
really... be humble.

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No matter what success you
achieve in your life, always be
humble.

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[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

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In his case, humility is
something that's absolutely
core.

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He doesn't even think about it.

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It's a natural thing
that emanates out from him,
really.

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It's central to the way
that he operates.

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[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

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CHUMO: This is the best training
area for running.

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Elite athletes.

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For that person
who is aspiring to be the best.

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AUGUSTINE: We believe in our
fitness, we believe in the team

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that we have selected
to help Eliud.

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We believe in the coaching
that's been provided for us.

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So we have a strong team.

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We do half squat.

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CHUMO: At the end of the day,
all you can do is just

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train, eat, rest, and repeat.

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[SINGING]

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[♪ "MESSAGE FROM KENYA"
BY THE HORACE SILVER TRIO]

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[MUSIC ENDS]

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NDUHIU: High-altitude training
does them a lot of good.

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You develop a higher
red blood cell count

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that transports the oxygen.

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So when you go and run now at
sea level, you find you have an
advantage

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because you're able to carry
the oxygen through

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much easier than
the other person.

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NOBLE: An elite athlete will be
used to having to capture the
oxygen very well.

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Their genomes are crafted
by the evolutionary process

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to produce the proteins
necessary to capture the oxygen
easily,

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because the oxygen is thin.

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But it can't be just that.

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The elite performers in Kenya
are also inheriting the right
epigenome.

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That is, the ability to maintain
those controls

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over, not only your muscles,
but also the rest of the body.

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How we behave, the lifestyle,
the training,

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the ways in which the body
tells the genome what to do.

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I've been fascinated
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by why certain ethnic groups
have excelled in sport.

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If you asked me in 2000,
I would have said it's genetic.

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But 20 years later,
it's very clear to me,

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and it's actually
well accepted now,

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that what we're observing is
a socio-economic cultural
phenomenon.

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The very best,
or the very, very unique
individuals,

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where genetics
plays a massive role

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but genes alone
will not produce success.

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You need that right environment.

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COE: You close your eyes
and you think about Kenya.

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You think about athletes,

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and you think about
extraordinary performances.

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And there is an ambition, an
aspiration, amongst young Kenyan
kids

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to want to be great runners.

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When we came out
of colonial administration,

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we became independent.

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And our first experience as a
country in international
competitions

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was so positive because
we won medals from the word go.

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And that, in itself, set a
tradition that every young
athlete coming up

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has a bar that is already set.
And that bar is that

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if you come with anything less
than a gold, you are not good.

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The Kenyans train
to be the best.

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And that's, like, a mindset
that is very strong for them.

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[HAMMERING]

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[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

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[INDISTINCT CHATTER IN SWAHILI]

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NDUHIU: Amongst all the Kalenjin
group that are running,

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there are those that can have
a very low pain threshold.

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That problem that would
actually make another athlete
drop,

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Eliud would finish with it.

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His body is exceptional,

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because he is able to block

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that disruption, that irritation
that the pain is causing,

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and put it at the back of his
mind until the race is over.

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[LAUGHS]

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NDUHIU: Actually, his biggest
asset, his mind,

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carries him through
those very trying moments.

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CHOGE: He is very
strong mentally.

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He has really developed a way
of overcoming the pain.

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He always smiles,
he always concentrates,

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he always keeps focus
on what he does.

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And I've tried and
it really works.

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You smile a bit, and you forget
about the pain and just keep
moving.

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NOBLE: When you're exercising,

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and you're competing
at a very high level,

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you are doing much more
than just running.

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You are also putting yourself
into a state of mind in which
you can do it.

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It's a meditative state.

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NDUHIU: You have to align the
mind and the whole body,

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so that when you tell it to
move, it moves as you direct.

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If you have a disconnect
between those two things,

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that's when you start losing
the momentum,

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and it becomes a nightmare
for you to sustain.

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COMMENTATOR: We are here
at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza

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to see if we can really break
this barrier.

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This is something that has been
in the making for two years.

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TROUW: Breaking the two hours
is incredible pressure.

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He experienced that
for the first time in Monza.

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That kind of pressure which is
different than going for
Olympics

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or for London Marathon
or anything else.

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And I think in Monza,
he was learning to handle it.

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It was really hard for him
to convince himself

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that he was going to run
under two hours.

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It took him six, seven months
to prepare physically,

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but mainly, mentally,
to be ready on the starting line

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that he had really internalized
that he was going to achieve it.

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At that time he came from
a personal best of 2:03:05.

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So he had to prepare his mind

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to go three minutes faster
than he had ever had done in his
life.

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COMMENTATOR: Believe me,
that's not just a first place,

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that is a moment of
marathon history.

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HERMENS: At Monza, it was very
clear it was a very big step.

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I remember going to the
racecourse at Monza

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and thinking to myself,
"Three minutes. That's a lot!"

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COMMENTATOR: Thirty seconds.

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Nine, eight, seven, six...

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LAGAT: He was courageous.

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He said,
"I'm going to give 100 percent."

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And he did.

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HERMENS: The three most
important points from Monza were

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that we didn't get enough
carbohydrates inside Eliud.

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The drinks didn't
work as we wanted.

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The weather was not ideal.
The rain. And it was very humid.

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And the other thing for Eliud
was always the crowd.

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There was nobody there.

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But that's also part of sports,
you know?

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If we can predict everything,
why are we here?

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You know, this is life.

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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He almost succeeded,
but he missed by 25 seconds.

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CHOGE: It was a
learning curve for me.

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He showed me a different
character of himself.

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That the mind that we thought
was, "He has a strong mind,"

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was stronger than we thought.

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[CHEERING]

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LAGAT: The most successful
people are the ones that are not
afraid of fear.

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They try, and if they fail,
they come back again.

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NDUHIU: That belief that he has
that no human is limited...

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It means, once you train your
mind on something, you will
achieve it.

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COE: The difference
between the good and the great

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is that your head may be telling
you you possibly can't do it,

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but there is
something else there

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that overrules
all those cautious thoughts.

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And you think, "Fuck it, I can.
And I'm gonna go for it."

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LAGAT:
We're in a different era right
now

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where people believe these guys
like Eliud are actually making
sure

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that the generation
that will follow

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are going to think,
"We are going to be running 2:00

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on an open marathon, or that is
not going to be good enough."

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COMMENTATOR: Haile Gebrselassie
writes yet another chapter

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in the most astonishing
distance-running career in
history.

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HERMENS: In 2008, Haile
Gebrselassie ran for the first
time under 2:04 in Berlin.

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Then more and more people are
asking, "Two hours, when will it
happen?"

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If you look at the curve
of the marathon records,

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it would take
another 30, 40 years.

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RATCLIFFE: To do the
impossible... and I almost still
believe

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that breaking a two-hour
marathon is impossible, because
I run!

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And the idea of running every
kilometer at two minutes 50

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is impossible in my view.

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That requires this combination
of an athlete that is truly
superhuman,

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but also incredibly meticulous
organization

348
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to get him to the point
where he could break two hours.

349
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It was that feeling of,
"Holy shit, this is the real
deal."

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We've got this responsibility
to this athlete

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who's only going to
get this one chance.

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When you're going into something
at the highest level,

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you're really under
a huge amount of pressure,

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you have to have
done the preparation.

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You have to know in your mind
that you've done all you
possibly can.

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BRAILSFORD: In the first
instance, you pull together a
little team of people,

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your safe team, as it were...
So, obviously, we got Tim in.

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Tim's background was in rowing,

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00:32:18,980 --> 00:32:22,897
swimming, and he is now
the most decorated coach in
cycling.

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00:32:22,941 --> 00:32:26,988
What he does have is a knowledge
of performance physiology

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and an ability to apply that
to a range of sports.

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One A and one B.

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BRAILSFORD: I met Valentijn,

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who is a performance manager
and looks after Eliud and his
team,

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and we hit it off straight away.

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One of the greatest challenges
in the first instance, was to
find the course.

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On that side we
had Hugh Brasher,

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who many will know is the
director of London Marathon.

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So you had Valentijn, Hugh and
myself as a sort of senior
management team.

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And then there were other people
in our team.

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Fran Millar, obviously
who works very closely with me.

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Peter Vint who was in charge of
all the cars and the lasers and
the timing.

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Spencer had got all the pacers

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and Robby Ketchell
who'd worked on the Nike
project.

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I mean, a brilliant guy. A
scientist, meteorologist,
aerodynamicist.

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I mean, phenomenally bright guy.

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And that's one of the challenges

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when you take experts from
different fields and different
sports

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and you try and pull them
together, you've got to have the
chemistry.

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We're going to have to move
fast, we're going to have to
have open minds,

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and communicate really, really
frequently and move at pace.

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Timothy and Emanuel, you just...
you start also behind.

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Because we are all
on the starting line.

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- We will not start in this
formation. - Oh, yes.

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We are starting on the line
and then, boom, go...

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BRAILSFORD: Normally, we race to
win. We win medals, we win
races.

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We go to the Olympics, or the
Tour de France, we win stuff in
competitions.

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This event is different.
This is about breaking a human
barrier.

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So we had to really think about
this in a slightly different way

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and make sure the philosophy
of the whole attempt was based

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on a performance
-first mentality.

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What's going to get us to that
record? What's going to help the
performance?

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And if we have to work harder,
invest more, find a different
way,

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find a different solution
for all the other aspects of the
event

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that will fit around it,
then that's what we'd do.

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He had run a fantastic time
in the London Marathon,

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and we thought, actually,
if he ran no worse,

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the same physical performance
that he did in London,

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then could we look for
the marginal gains?

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The optimizers,
as we'd call them.

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So, make sure the surface of the
road is absolutely perfect.

402
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Perfect weather conditions.

403
00:34:49,348 --> 00:34:52,612
We wanted the corners
to be more than 32 meters'
radius.

404
00:34:52,655 --> 00:34:55,136
What's the thermoregulation?
What's the fueling strategy?

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00:34:55,180 --> 00:34:58,052
What's the pacing strategy?
The aerodynamics?

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All of those elements
were critical in essentially

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what, for me, would
be marginal gains.

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00:35:03,405 --> 00:35:06,191
HERMENS: We improve shoes,
we improve drinks, all these
things.

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00:35:06,234 --> 00:35:08,280
But that's natural.

410
00:35:08,323 --> 00:35:11,326
In ten years, we will be again
finding out more things, and
different things.

411
00:35:11,370 --> 00:35:14,547
It's just a point in history
where we are at at the moment

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and we are speeding up
a little bit of history.

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RATCLIFFE: I always wanted it
to be somewhere iconic

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because it's such
a special event.

415
00:35:44,446 --> 00:35:47,493
I didn't really want to be
in an airfield in Norfolk, you
know?

416
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Or somewhere in northern Germany
because those were a couple of
ideas.

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00:35:51,279 --> 00:35:53,194
You get a flat course
and it's very manageable

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00:35:53,238 --> 00:35:55,414
because there's no people
around, there's no traffic.

419
00:35:55,457 --> 00:35:57,372
You have to deal with all that.

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If you're going to do this, it
should really be in an iconic
location.

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KETCHELL: This course is
actually something really
special.

422
00:36:17,175 --> 00:36:20,482
When we came and saw it for
the first time, all of us looked
at it

423
00:36:20,526 --> 00:36:22,876
and said immediately,
"I think we found our place."

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00:36:24,530 --> 00:36:28,969
You come here and even before
you think about all of the
physics around it,

425
00:36:29,012 --> 00:36:31,363
and the environment
that you are trying to run in,

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00:36:31,406 --> 00:36:34,714
you get a feeling of,
"This is somewhere I can run
fast."

427
00:36:34,757 --> 00:36:38,413
[DOGS BARK]

428
00:36:38,457 --> 00:36:40,285
It was June 13.

429
00:36:42,287 --> 00:36:46,116
Thirteen minutes past eight,
I've got the call. It's Vienna.

430
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:48,771
It starts me crying a little
bit, just for a moment.

431
00:36:52,340 --> 00:36:55,256
To have Eliud here,
and all those pacemakers?

432
00:36:55,300 --> 00:36:58,303
It was the best
that ever could happen for
Vienna.

433
00:36:59,956 --> 00:37:03,351
So on this circuit,
we have a 4.3 kilometer section
here

434
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that we are walking on
almost perfectly flat.

435
00:37:06,833 --> 00:37:09,662
It only has an elevation change
of about 2.4 meters

436
00:37:09,705 --> 00:37:11,316
from one end to the other.

437
00:37:11,359 --> 00:37:13,666
He's going to do 4.4 laps on it,

438
00:37:13,709 --> 00:37:17,974
so that means that he is going
to do this about 8.5 times.

439
00:37:18,018 --> 00:37:22,762
And there are roundabouts that
are located conveniently on
either side.

440
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:26,983
Just having that circuit there
was enough for us to decide

441
00:37:27,027 --> 00:37:28,985
that this is an
optimal location.

442
00:37:31,074 --> 00:37:33,642
When you approach anything like
this, a big undertaking,

443
00:37:33,686 --> 00:37:36,602
it's like being in a field where
there's mist and you can't see
anything.

444
00:37:36,645 --> 00:37:38,734
You don't know where the fence
is or where the edges are.

445
00:37:38,778 --> 00:37:42,260
But you know there's a gate
somewhere. You know you can get
out of the field.

446
00:37:42,303 --> 00:37:45,175
But until the fog lifts, you're
not going to be able to find the
gate.

447
00:37:45,219 --> 00:37:47,482
And it felt like that at the
beginning of the project.

448
00:37:47,526 --> 00:37:49,397
And as the fog lifted,

449
00:37:49,441 --> 00:37:52,531
it was literally like all of
the elements started to fall
into place.

450
00:37:52,574 --> 00:37:55,751
An order fell across
the whole project.

451
00:37:55,795 --> 00:37:57,927
People really seemed
to buy this concept

452
00:37:57,971 --> 00:38:01,409
of, "We're doing something
that no one has ever done."

453
00:38:01,453 --> 00:38:03,324
Like, that's special.
That's unique.

454
00:38:03,977 --> 00:38:06,545
There was a genuine magic to it,
you know?

455
00:38:18,992 --> 00:38:23,126
BRAILSFORD: He is Zen-like
in his approach and his
preparation.

456
00:38:23,649 --> 00:38:26,521
And watching him
at close quarters develop

457
00:38:26,565 --> 00:38:29,829
from the end of the finishing
line in the London Marathon,

458
00:38:29,872 --> 00:38:31,613
in those few months coming up,

459
00:38:31,657 --> 00:38:34,094
coming up to the level
of when he was ready

460
00:38:34,137 --> 00:38:36,836
to execute that performance,
was something else.

461
00:38:37,489 --> 00:38:40,274
How he approached
that was very special.

462
00:38:41,319 --> 00:38:46,367
Not only did he believe in
himself, he had a brilliant way

463
00:38:46,411 --> 00:38:49,588
of making everybody around him
believe in him, too.

464
00:38:50,937 --> 00:38:54,549
The impact that has on everybody
else around him in a project...

465
00:38:54,593 --> 00:38:58,031
Not only the other support
runners and the pacemakers,

466
00:38:58,074 --> 00:39:00,860
but all of the staff,
the coaching staff, the experts,

467
00:39:00,903 --> 00:39:02,949
everybody who was
working night and day

468
00:39:02,992 --> 00:39:06,692
to try and bring all this
project together, that's
special.

469
00:40:16,152 --> 00:40:18,111
MALE TV CREW: OK, good luck,
Gabs. Here we go.

470
00:40:18,154 --> 00:40:20,548
FEMALE TV CREW: Cameras,
keep offering what you can.
Thank you.

471
00:40:22,594 --> 00:40:24,813
Seven... six... five...

472
00:40:26,380 --> 00:40:27,729
three... two...

473
00:40:28,513 --> 00:40:29,470
one.

474
00:40:31,777 --> 00:40:34,649
COMMENTATOR: Well, the waiting
is over. The moment has arrived.

475
00:40:34,693 --> 00:40:38,348
We are just moments away.
And there he is.

476
00:40:38,392 --> 00:40:40,350
You know, thousands,
if not millions, of people

477
00:40:40,394 --> 00:40:43,049
will be
going out for a Saturday run
today.

478
00:40:43,092 --> 00:40:48,228
Well, this could be the most
famous Saturday run the world
has ever seen.

479
00:40:48,271 --> 00:40:53,625
And it's all about this man,
Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya.

480
00:41:00,588 --> 00:41:02,634
MAN: [ON SPEAKER] The sub two
-hour marathon is considered

481
00:41:02,677 --> 00:41:04,679
the Everest of distance running.

482
00:41:04,723 --> 00:41:09,467
Something that people, for a
long time, thought was nearly
impossible,

483
00:41:09,510 --> 00:41:11,381
we wouldn't see
in our lifetimes.

484
00:41:11,425 --> 00:41:13,732
And in the last few years,
it's suddenly hoved into view.

485
00:41:13,775 --> 00:41:17,039
And we might see it today.
It's very exciting.

486
00:41:17,083 --> 00:41:18,998
[QUIET CHATTER]

487
00:41:20,782 --> 00:41:22,828
[♪ "OBIERO" BY AYUB OGADA]

488
00:41:44,284 --> 00:41:46,808
[MUSIC CONTINUES]

489
00:42:31,374 --> 00:42:33,289
COMMENTATOR 1:
We've already got crowds

490
00:42:33,333 --> 00:42:37,206
who are all expectant of history
being made today in Vienna.

491
00:42:37,250 --> 00:42:39,600
COMMENTATOR 2: He's done
everything there is to do in
this sport.

492
00:42:39,644 --> 00:42:42,821
This is the last barrier.
The two-hour marathon.

493
00:42:42,864 --> 00:42:45,606
This would be his legacy.

494
00:42:45,650 --> 00:42:48,261
COMMENTATOR 1: Every i
has been dotted, every t
crossed.

495
00:42:48,304 --> 00:42:50,132
Is he going to do it?

496
00:42:50,176 --> 00:42:53,483
The weather, the fact that it's
foggy, a bit foggier than
expected,

497
00:42:53,527 --> 00:42:56,617
throws another little doubt,
maybe, into the minds.

498
00:42:56,661 --> 00:42:58,619
This is not a
foregone conclusion.

499
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:23,122
COMMENTATOR: So we are into the
final few minutes before
countdown.

500
00:43:23,165 --> 00:43:25,298
- MAN: Fifteen seconds.
- WOMAN: Stand by, everyone.

501
00:43:25,341 --> 00:43:27,082
Stand by three, stand by five.

502
00:43:28,823 --> 00:43:30,564
- MAN: Here we go.
- WOMAN: Stand by ten.

503
00:43:40,052 --> 00:43:44,360
RUTO: From the president
to the simple Kenyan in a
village,

504
00:43:44,404 --> 00:43:48,538
we want to witness history
being made.

505
00:43:48,582 --> 00:43:51,541
And we are confident that today,
God willing,

506
00:43:51,585 --> 00:43:53,718
we will have a celebration

507
00:43:53,761 --> 00:43:59,201
and 1:59 is going to be a
reality. Thank you very much.

508
00:43:59,245 --> 00:44:01,595
[APPLAUSE]

509
00:44:46,858 --> 00:44:49,077
- [STARTING PISTOL]
- [CHEERING]

510
00:44:50,035 --> 00:44:54,474
COMMENTATOR: We have lift-off.
Apollo Kipchoge is up and away.

511
00:44:54,517 --> 00:44:57,346
[CHEERING]

512
00:45:56,928 --> 00:46:00,148
SANG: The race, when it started,
it was beautiful.

513
00:46:00,192 --> 00:46:02,803
As a coach, you know,
you look at the body language.

514
00:46:03,935 --> 00:46:08,853
I saw the eyes of Eliud in the
camera and he was very focused
and relaxed.

515
00:46:09,592 --> 00:46:13,335
Everybody was psyched up.
The pacers were in high spirits

516
00:46:13,379 --> 00:46:15,947
and I said,
"It's going to be a good day."

517
00:46:16,730 --> 00:46:20,168
GRACE KIPCHOGE: When he started
the race, I was nervous.

518
00:46:20,212 --> 00:46:22,344
But when I saw how
he was running,

519
00:46:22,388 --> 00:46:27,001
he was really in good shape,
and the pacers were also.

520
00:46:28,350 --> 00:46:31,353
LYNNE KIPCHOGE:
I was nervous... exciting...

521
00:46:31,397 --> 00:46:32,746
And...

522
00:46:32,790 --> 00:46:35,053
I had faith that he could do it.

523
00:46:36,881 --> 00:46:40,188
KERRISON: We had a starting-race
plan. If everything went
perfectly,

524
00:46:40,232 --> 00:46:43,844
the plan was to go
at the first kilometer at 2:48:
0.

525
00:46:43,888 --> 00:46:47,717
And every other kilometer
after that 2:50:45

526
00:46:47,761 --> 00:46:50,198
which would give
a finish time of 1:59:50.

527
00:46:53,941 --> 00:46:55,987
MALE COMMENTATOR: The speed
at which they are traveling

528
00:46:56,030 --> 00:46:57,858
is quite extraordinary.

529
00:46:57,902 --> 00:47:00,861
It's worth trying to put it
into some sort of layman's
terms.

530
00:47:00,905 --> 00:47:03,864
He is going to be running,
or trying to run, consistently

531
00:47:03,908 --> 00:47:05,474
at 13 miles an hour.

532
00:47:05,518 --> 00:47:07,955
Twenty-one kilometers an hour.

533
00:47:07,999 --> 00:47:09,609
FEMALE COMMENTATOR:
It's mind blowing.

534
00:47:09,652 --> 00:47:12,742
I challenge people to go
to their local track

535
00:47:12,786 --> 00:47:17,965
and just run one lap, 400 meters
of the track, in 68 seconds.

536
00:47:18,009 --> 00:47:19,662
I bet you not many
people can do that!

537
00:47:20,359 --> 00:47:21,316
[BLEEP]

538
00:47:22,100 --> 00:47:23,928
This is crazy!

539
00:47:23,971 --> 00:47:26,147
MALE COMMENTATOR: We can
break this down in so many ways.

540
00:47:26,191 --> 00:47:30,195
One lap of the track,
at your local track, 68 seconds.

541
00:47:30,238 --> 00:47:35,765
And he has to do that 105 times.
Each hundred meters in 17
seconds.

542
00:47:35,809 --> 00:47:39,900
And he will be doing
that 422 times.

543
00:47:39,944 --> 00:47:42,424
[CHEERING]

544
00:47:42,468 --> 00:47:46,298
BRAILSFORD: We are very familiar
in cycling with the concept of
aerodynamics

545
00:47:46,341 --> 00:47:50,606
and riding behind another one.
A teammate taking the brunt of
the wind

546
00:47:50,650 --> 00:47:53,392
and having to really
tire themselves out

547
00:47:53,435 --> 00:47:56,917
so the person behind can be
fresher and then try and go for
the win.

548
00:47:57,396 --> 00:48:00,529
So Robby and the
aerodynamics team

549
00:48:00,573 --> 00:48:05,143
set about looking at the
formations that were traditional
in running.

550
00:48:05,186 --> 00:48:07,928
And, also, throwing out
some creative ideas.

551
00:48:07,972 --> 00:48:11,192
They ran their CFD models,
and their computer models,

552
00:48:11,236 --> 00:48:14,456
and we made models, and the
miniature models went in the
wind tunnel.

553
00:48:14,500 --> 00:48:16,284
Positioned them all, et cetera.

554
00:48:16,328 --> 00:48:18,199
Lo and behold, they came back
and they said,

555
00:48:18,243 --> 00:48:21,028
"Actually, we found something
pretty interesting."

556
00:48:21,855 --> 00:48:24,814
KETCHELL: In a typical marathon,
if he was to run by himself,

557
00:48:24,858 --> 00:48:27,165
he would have about
six Newtons of drag.

558
00:48:27,208 --> 00:48:33,475
We've come up with a formation
that has reduced that to about
one Newton.

559
00:48:33,519 --> 00:48:37,044
It's a huge improvement in the
drag that he'll have when he's
running.

560
00:48:37,088 --> 00:48:39,960
So the pacers have a huge impact

561
00:48:40,004 --> 00:48:42,702
on being able to help Eliud
break two hours.

562
00:48:42,745 --> 00:48:43,659
Come on, guys!

563
00:48:45,270 --> 00:48:47,489
HERMENS: I was there
when he did the test in the
winter,

564
00:48:47,533 --> 00:48:49,404
and it was fascinating to know.

565
00:48:49,448 --> 00:48:52,886
We always thought pacemaking
would be like the birds flying
in the sky

566
00:48:52,930 --> 00:48:54,932
in the open-V formation.

567
00:48:54,975 --> 00:48:57,238
But it turned out not to be a V.

568
00:48:57,282 --> 00:48:58,936
It turned out to be a Y.

569
00:49:01,329 --> 00:49:05,768
KETCHELL: There are five runners
in front of Eliud and two behind
him.

570
00:49:05,812 --> 00:49:09,468
The front-runners will be
positioned over here on the
sides

571
00:49:09,511 --> 00:49:11,122
and there will be two of them.

572
00:49:11,165 --> 00:49:13,776
But there will be a gap in
between them which is not
natural.

573
00:49:13,820 --> 00:49:17,606
That's part of the reason that
training them how to run like
this was difficult.

574
00:49:17,650 --> 00:49:21,654
Behind those two runners
will be two more runners

575
00:49:21,697 --> 00:49:25,005
that are positioned further in,
so we're starting to create a V.

576
00:49:25,049 --> 00:49:28,878
Then, behind them will be the
captain who runs in front of
Eliud.

577
00:49:28,922 --> 00:49:32,099
BRAILSFORD: At some point,
Fosbury did his flop for the
first time.

578
00:49:32,143 --> 00:49:34,928
And people went,
"What? What's he doing?"

579
00:49:34,972 --> 00:49:36,538
And yet it worked.

580
00:49:36,582 --> 00:49:39,628
So we said, "Why isn't this
the Fosbury flop of running?"

581
00:49:39,672 --> 00:49:42,892
We were maximizing what we call
the outwash around each runner.

582
00:49:42,936 --> 00:49:46,287
So the outwash means that when
wind hits a runner on the torso,

583
00:49:46,331 --> 00:49:49,812
it changes the direction of the
wind, and it's going to go out
to the sides.

584
00:49:49,856 --> 00:49:51,292
So, in effect,
what was happening,

585
00:49:51,336 --> 00:49:54,165
the air was hitting the guy
that was on the outside.

586
00:49:54,208 --> 00:49:56,950
Some of the air was coming
outside, some was going inside.

587
00:49:57,690 --> 00:50:00,606
A guy on the inside of him,
on his shoulder,

588
00:50:00,649 --> 00:50:04,218
was then getting the air coming
from guy number one,

589
00:50:04,262 --> 00:50:07,569
plus the air hitting him.
So quite a lot more air, in
fact.

590
00:50:08,396 --> 00:50:11,878
And, of course, this is
happening on two sides of the
funnel, as it were.

591
00:50:12,574 --> 00:50:15,534
So the air, eventually,
was funneled right into the
middle,

592
00:50:15,577 --> 00:50:18,972
and the guy who was in the
center in the middle, took a lot
of air.

593
00:50:19,016 --> 00:50:21,018
He was getting
quite a buffeting!

594
00:50:21,061 --> 00:50:23,803
And what happened was,
it created a big wake.

595
00:50:23,846 --> 00:50:27,850
It actually created a nice
little hole where there was
pretty much still air.

596
00:50:32,768 --> 00:50:34,988
KETCHELL: In that wake is where
Eliud needs to try to run

597
00:50:35,032 --> 00:50:37,295
as close to the captain
in front of him.

598
00:50:37,338 --> 00:50:40,254
Typically, you wouldn't run
there. Your visibility isn't the
best.

599
00:50:40,298 --> 00:50:42,778
You also don't want to trip.

600
00:50:42,822 --> 00:50:45,085
So you don't want to step on the
runner in front of you.

601
00:50:45,129 --> 00:50:47,479
They'll kick back and
vary a little bit.

602
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:50,308
COMMENTATOR: The absolute trust

603
00:50:50,351 --> 00:50:54,660
between all eight people
at any one time cannot be
overstated.

604
00:50:54,703 --> 00:50:57,880
Bernard Lagat there, right at
the heart of it, the initial
captain.

605
00:50:57,924 --> 00:51:00,970
And he will be handing over
shortly to the second team

606
00:51:01,014 --> 00:51:04,322
and Eric Kiptanui
will be the second captain.

607
00:51:04,365 --> 00:51:08,021
COMMENTATOR 2: This event was
always going to have a bit of
ballet about it.

608
00:51:08,065 --> 00:51:11,111
You needed everyone to know what
they were doing, what their
steps were.

609
00:51:11,155 --> 00:51:13,853
We said, "OK, it's a big risk,
we haven't got much time.

610
00:51:13,896 --> 00:51:16,769
We'll have to practice this
thing. If we go with this,

611
00:51:16,812 --> 00:51:20,294
then we want to make sure,
as much as we can, that it's
right."

612
00:51:20,338 --> 00:51:22,209
LAGAT: It is kind of tricky,

613
00:51:22,253 --> 00:51:25,038
but then, as a captain,
I need to keep my guys calm.

614
00:51:25,082 --> 00:51:28,302
I want to make sure that they
understand the formation, to
stay in their lanes.

615
00:51:28,346 --> 00:51:32,393
At the same time, note that they
are the ones controlling the
pace in the front.

616
00:51:33,177 --> 00:51:36,484
SANG: The captain was the
leader. He was in charge of all
the pacers

617
00:51:36,528 --> 00:51:41,010
to make sure they executed
exactly what they were supposed
to execute.

618
00:51:41,054 --> 00:51:52,587
[CHEERING]

619
00:51:52,631 --> 00:51:56,243
This is like the queen bee,
protected by the drones and the
others

620
00:51:56,287 --> 00:52:00,682
and it's that beautiful thing,
the exchange of the pacemakers!

621
00:52:00,726 --> 00:52:02,815
COMMENTATOR: And we're keeping
an eye out here

622
00:52:02,858 --> 00:52:04,164
for the first change-over.

623
00:52:04,208 --> 00:52:07,036
As I think Shalane was
likening... Here we go!

624
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:09,038
Shalane, talk us through this.

625
00:52:09,082 --> 00:52:11,737
SHALANE: Yeah, I was likening it
to, in the US, a NASCAR pit
stop,

626
00:52:11,780 --> 00:52:16,655
where we change our tires,
fine tune the machine...

627
00:52:16,698 --> 00:52:18,222
Same thing goes here for Eliud.

628
00:52:18,265 --> 00:52:20,354
He's switching out
and getting fresh runners

629
00:52:20,398 --> 00:52:23,444
that are hopefully smoothly
transitioning into formation

630
00:52:23,488 --> 00:52:27,796
so that Eliud can just draft,
and conserve as much energy as
possible.

631
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:29,711
BRAILSFORD: Those changes
were not easy.

632
00:52:29,755 --> 00:52:33,498
One slip, one wrong turn with a
trip-up, and it could all be
over.

633
00:52:35,021 --> 00:52:36,588
We wanted to maintain the pace

634
00:52:36,631 --> 00:52:39,721
as well as the team exiting
and the team coming in.

635
00:52:39,765 --> 00:52:41,984
So we want the team
that is going out

636
00:52:42,028 --> 00:52:45,292
to really move out smoothly
and maintain the pace.

637
00:52:45,336 --> 00:52:48,730
Then we also want the team going
in to come in smoothly,

638
00:52:48,774 --> 00:52:50,689
not distracting Eliud.

639
00:52:52,038 --> 00:52:57,826
RATCLIFFE: We probably have
40 of the top athletes on the
planet

640
00:52:57,870 --> 00:53:00,742
and they're all working
for a common cause

641
00:53:00,786 --> 00:53:02,353
and one man, which is Eliud.

642
00:53:02,396 --> 00:53:04,224
COMMENTATOR: The man
at the heart of it,

643
00:53:04,268 --> 00:53:06,095
he's already the
world record-holder,

644
00:53:06,139 --> 00:53:08,228
and he is surrounded
by his band of brothers.

645
00:53:08,272 --> 00:53:12,145
We've got 15 Kenyans, seven
Americans, six Ugandans.

646
00:53:12,189 --> 00:53:16,367
We've got Australians,
Norwegians, Ethiopians and one
Japanese pacemaker.

647
00:53:16,410 --> 00:53:19,108
It really is
a truly international field.

648
00:53:19,152 --> 00:53:21,546
SHALENE: They all idolize
and look up to Eliud.

649
00:53:21,589 --> 00:53:25,289
I think they look at this as a
chance to be a part of history
today.

650
00:53:25,332 --> 00:53:27,508
It's a beautiful opportunity
to help someone

651
00:53:27,552 --> 00:53:30,468
that we know can
transcend our sport.

652
00:53:31,643 --> 00:53:34,646
WANDERS: You know, running
is the most natural sport in the
world.

653
00:53:34,689 --> 00:53:37,344
You grow up, you walk, you run.

654
00:53:37,388 --> 00:53:40,391
I think that's why this sport
is so beautiful.

655
00:53:40,434 --> 00:53:43,220
You can run without shoes.
You don't need anything to run.

656
00:54:15,208 --> 00:54:16,731
SHALENE: From an
African perspective,

657
00:54:16,775 --> 00:54:19,299
right now, there are young
Africans watching,

658
00:54:19,343 --> 00:54:22,998
and just looking to see
what human potential looks like,

659
00:54:23,042 --> 00:54:25,305
waiting to be the next Kipchoge.

660
00:54:25,349 --> 00:54:28,961
This is so inspiring, not only
to runners all over the world,

661
00:54:29,004 --> 00:54:31,442
but to everybody,
that no human is limited.

662
00:54:31,485 --> 00:54:33,531
You can go for your goals

663
00:54:33,574 --> 00:54:35,881
if you have that energy
and that strong mind

664
00:54:35,924 --> 00:54:37,404
that you do whatever
you want to do.

665
00:54:37,448 --> 00:54:39,058
So it's not about running.

666
00:54:39,101 --> 00:54:40,973
It is about inspiring the world

667
00:54:41,016 --> 00:54:43,802
everybody else in the world
that everything is possible.

668
00:54:43,845 --> 00:54:46,108
And nothing is limited for you.

669
00:54:46,152 --> 00:54:49,242
[CHEERING]

670
00:54:51,331 --> 00:54:54,291
COMMENTATOR: We are approaching
the first of the roundabouts
here.

671
00:54:54,334 --> 00:54:57,859
This is the Lusthaus. This is
the smaller of the two
roundabouts.

672
00:54:57,903 --> 00:55:01,298
In the middle of that
is a former hunting lodge.

673
00:55:07,913 --> 00:55:10,437
KETCHELL: The turn radius around
the Lusthaus on average

674
00:55:10,481 --> 00:55:12,874
is about 27.4 meters.

675
00:55:13,658 --> 00:55:17,270
Originally, when we came here,
the surface was pretty old.

676
00:55:17,314 --> 00:55:19,272
We knew that we were
going to resurface.

677
00:55:19,838 --> 00:55:23,232
When you're running
at 5.861 meters per second

678
00:55:23,276 --> 00:55:26,410
at a 27.4-meter radius

679
00:55:26,453 --> 00:55:31,632
you would, optimally, be looking
for about a ten-degree banking.

680
00:55:32,067 --> 00:55:35,419
In a real-world condition,
we can't create a ten-degree
banking,

681
00:55:35,462 --> 00:55:38,683
but we can do something
to improve the current situation

682
00:55:38,726 --> 00:55:42,730
of there being a negative two
percent of a camber going away
from Eliud.

683
00:55:43,601 --> 00:55:47,039
LAGAT: If you think of a track
athlete who runs indoors

684
00:55:47,082 --> 00:55:50,303
you run on a 200
-meter banked track.

685
00:55:50,347 --> 00:55:53,306
Now, if you're going fast,
if it was flat at 200 meters,

686
00:55:53,350 --> 00:55:55,003
you're going to drift
towards the outside.

687
00:55:55,047 --> 00:55:57,789
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

688
00:55:57,832 --> 00:55:59,878
You're allowed to
step off the lines,

689
00:55:59,921 --> 00:56:02,315
but you'd want
a little bit of a cushion.

690
00:56:02,359 --> 00:56:04,709
- Yeah, I'm sure you saw me
going... - Yeah, yeah, I was,
like...

691
00:56:05,318 --> 00:56:08,103
WANDERS: It's a bit dangerous
when you arrive at such a turn,

692
00:56:08,147 --> 00:56:11,019
when you run at a fast pace.

693
00:56:11,063 --> 00:56:17,330
You might slip a little bit
outside or even twist your
ankle.

694
00:56:18,462 --> 00:56:20,464
They have actually raised it,

695
00:56:20,507 --> 00:56:22,117
so that as you're running there,

696
00:56:22,161 --> 00:56:24,424
you feel like you're running
an indoor track.

697
00:56:24,468 --> 00:56:27,427
You're supported
and you're staying balanced.

698
00:56:27,471 --> 00:56:31,083
KETCHELL: It changes it from
negative two percent to a
positive one percent

699
00:56:31,126 --> 00:56:33,215
so we get a three
-percent difference.

700
00:56:35,174 --> 00:56:38,438
We estimate that it can save him
up to three seconds per lap.

701
00:56:38,482 --> 00:56:41,006
So that's 12 seconds
over the entire distance.

702
00:56:41,049 --> 00:56:42,529
He won't save that time,

703
00:56:42,573 --> 00:56:45,489
because he actually won't
run quicker because of that

704
00:56:45,532 --> 00:56:47,360
but he will conserve
more energy.

705
00:56:47,404 --> 00:56:50,450
That's going to allow him to run
at the sub two-hour pace for
longer.

706
00:56:52,583 --> 00:56:54,976
COMMENTATOR: OK, you can see
the recent splits there.

707
00:56:55,020 --> 00:56:56,891
The 2:50 mark in green

708
00:56:56,935 --> 00:57:00,025
means that he is on schedule
for a sub two-hour marathon
pace.

709
00:57:00,068 --> 00:57:03,202
2:52 and 2:51 in the red,
means he's just outside.

710
00:57:03,245 --> 00:57:07,815
He's been twice on target,
and twice just outside.

711
00:57:07,859 --> 00:57:10,731
It just shows us, Ed,
even in these early stages,

712
00:57:10,775 --> 00:57:12,472
just how challenging it is.

713
00:57:12,516 --> 00:57:15,344
KERRISON: So, in what we call
the POC, on the day of the race,

714
00:57:15,388 --> 00:57:17,651
the Performance
Operations Center,

715
00:57:17,695 --> 00:57:22,047
we had representatives from the
aerodynamics team, the
pacemakers team,

716
00:57:22,090 --> 00:57:27,356
the car and the laser, the
timing system, the meteorology
team,

717
00:57:27,400 --> 00:57:31,665
and myself in communication
with Valentijn on the road.

718
00:57:31,709 --> 00:57:33,537
[INDISTINCT RADIO CONVERSATION]

719
00:57:33,580 --> 00:57:35,713
Any information that needed to
come from any of those
specialist teams

720
00:57:35,756 --> 00:57:37,845
to Valentijn was
done through me.

721
00:57:38,280 --> 00:57:40,108
COMMENTATOR: Communication
taking place

722
00:57:40,152 --> 00:57:43,547
with Valentijn on the bicycle.
He's giving instructions out.

723
00:57:43,590 --> 00:57:46,201
BRAILSFORD: I mean, it looks
like one smooth event, doesn't
it?

724
00:57:46,245 --> 00:57:50,075
[LAUGHS] But it's a million
miles from that, you know.

725
00:57:50,902 --> 00:57:53,470
KERRISON: We had some
interesting situations in the
race

726
00:57:53,513 --> 00:57:57,125
where even the second kilometer,
we thought was out.

727
00:57:57,169 --> 00:58:00,520
There were some kilometers that
were 2:48 and some that were 2
:52.

728
00:58:01,042 --> 00:58:04,524
2:48! That's like... [SIGHS]
They've gone out too fast.

729
00:58:04,568 --> 00:58:07,222
TROUW ON RADIO: That's the
correction from the 2km board.
Over.

730
00:58:07,266 --> 00:58:09,398
This is a major issue.

731
00:58:09,442 --> 00:58:11,357
In our little
Mission Control pod,

732
00:58:11,400 --> 00:58:13,925
it might have been looking like
a start to an event to everyone
else.

733
00:58:13,968 --> 00:58:16,536
"Oh, they're getting going,
getting warmed up."

734
00:58:16,580 --> 00:58:18,843
We were, like,
"Whoa, OK, there's something...

735
00:58:18,886 --> 00:58:20,366
What's going on?"

736
00:58:20,932 --> 00:58:24,109
Tim Kerrison is sitting there
with his headphones on.

737
00:58:24,152 --> 00:58:26,546
And he kind of nonchalantly
took one off

738
00:58:26,590 --> 00:58:28,548
and put it on the side and said,

739
00:58:29,506 --> 00:58:33,031
"All this timing you're seeing
on the telly, and that everyone
can see,

740
00:58:33,074 --> 00:58:34,598
it's wrong."

741
00:58:34,641 --> 00:58:37,992
[LAUGHS] I was like, "What?"
He said, "Yeah, it's wrong.

742
00:58:38,036 --> 00:58:42,170
They're on pace."
I said, "Are you sure?"

743
00:58:42,954 --> 00:58:44,651
He said, "Absolutely. I'm right.

744
00:58:44,695 --> 00:58:48,263
We're going to switch to
our back-up time and do it
ourselves."

745
00:58:49,395 --> 00:58:51,310
I was, like... [CLEARS THROAT]

746
00:58:51,353 --> 00:58:55,140
"OK, everybody. Forget the
timing. We're switching to back
-up timing."

747
00:58:55,183 --> 00:58:56,663
Two-51.

748
00:58:56,707 --> 00:59:00,101
[CHEERING]

749
00:59:00,145 --> 00:59:02,495
COMMENTATOR: The target time
holding up pretty well.

750
00:59:02,539 --> 00:59:05,890
We've been hovering
between eight and ten seconds

751
00:59:05,933 --> 00:59:07,587
inside sub two-hour pace.

752
00:59:07,631 --> 00:59:09,284
So, so far so good.

753
00:59:09,328 --> 00:59:12,505
And, Ed, the next real milestone
will be the ten-kilometer mark.

754
00:59:12,549 --> 00:59:16,378
And sub two-hour pace
would put him at, what, 28:26.

755
00:59:16,422 --> 00:59:18,555
ED: Yeah, which is
a pretty tidy 10K!

756
00:59:29,653 --> 00:59:33,918
COMMENTATOR: Just out of picture
is Valentijn Trouw the athletes'
manager

757
00:59:33,961 --> 00:59:37,225
handing now more drinks and more
gels to Eliud if he wants them.

758
00:59:37,269 --> 00:59:39,706
He does take something
on board there.

759
00:59:39,750 --> 00:59:42,274
KERRISON: How much he consumes
is actually closely monitored

760
00:59:42,317 --> 00:59:44,624
by his nutritionist
who will be measuring

761
00:59:44,668 --> 00:59:48,628
every time that he takes
something from his water bottle
and tosses it.

762
00:59:48,672 --> 00:59:50,761
They will pick it up
and hand it off to him

763
00:59:50,804 --> 00:59:53,938
so he can weigh it
and know how much he consumed.

764
00:59:53,981 --> 00:59:55,940
BRAILSFORD: We had people just
there to grab that bottle

765
00:59:55,983 --> 00:59:57,332
before it got in the crowd.

766
00:59:57,376 --> 00:59:59,334
Get the bottle, get the bottle!
Right, get it in.

767
00:59:59,378 --> 01:00:01,249
What's the measurement?
How much did he drink?

768
01:00:01,293 --> 01:00:04,296
You feed it back in.
He took X amount of mls on that
one.

769
01:00:04,339 --> 01:00:06,428
OK, we need to
change the next one.

770
01:00:06,472 --> 01:00:10,389
So they were modifying
the fueling strategy in-race,
live.

771
01:00:12,957 --> 01:00:15,786
TROUW: To keep that same rhythm
for two hours...

772
01:00:15,829 --> 01:00:19,528
That's a lot of things happening
in your body, your muscles.

773
01:00:19,572 --> 01:00:22,531
Some muscles, especially the
hamstrings, will get very tight.

774
01:00:22,575 --> 01:00:24,882
Because you're running
in the same rhythm.

775
01:00:24,925 --> 01:00:27,536
Lactic acid is building up
in the muscles.

776
01:00:27,580 --> 01:00:32,106
After one hour and a half,
it will be very difficult for
him.

777
01:00:35,153 --> 01:00:38,635
Everyone was stressed not to do
a mistake, not to make him fall.

778
01:00:38,678 --> 01:00:40,593
That was the worst
that could happen.

779
01:00:40,637 --> 01:00:44,902
And when it was my turn,
of course, I was stressed,

780
01:00:44,945 --> 01:00:48,296
but I was so happy to be here
to help Eliud.

781
01:00:49,254 --> 01:00:51,691
I think I am getting the mindset
of the Kenyans.

782
01:00:51,735 --> 01:00:55,608
Believing that everything is
possible by just training every
day

783
01:00:55,652 --> 01:00:57,436
for months and months,
years and years.

784
01:00:57,479 --> 01:01:01,135
When you go to race, you have
this self-belief that you can
win.

785
01:01:04,704 --> 01:01:06,750
I was more keen on
the body language

786
01:01:06,793 --> 01:01:09,361
as the race progressed
because they never fell back.

787
01:01:09,404 --> 01:01:12,016
But, as far as making the right
times were concerned,

788
01:01:12,059 --> 01:01:14,148
they were being
guided by the laser.

789
01:01:19,110 --> 01:01:21,982
COMMENTATOR: Some people have
criticized, or maybe had a view
about,

790
01:01:22,026 --> 01:01:23,549
the role of the lead car, there.

791
01:01:23,592 --> 01:01:26,204
We can see perhaps that that's
adding extra protection,

792
01:01:26,247 --> 01:01:29,642
but, essentially, as far as the
experts have explained to us,

793
01:01:29,686 --> 01:01:34,255
the only reason that car is
there is to project the laser
pacer.

794
01:01:34,299 --> 01:01:37,258
COMMENTATOR 2: If you talked to
Robby Ketchell who designed the
aerodynamics

795
01:01:37,302 --> 01:01:39,870
he said, "If it were up to me,
I wouldn't have a car."

796
01:01:39,913 --> 01:01:41,915
It doesn't seem like
that would be right

797
01:01:41,959 --> 01:01:44,918
but all the computational flow
dynamics that they have been
doing

798
01:01:44,962 --> 01:01:48,008
have told them that the best
results would be without a car.

799
01:01:48,052 --> 01:01:52,621
The car, obviously, had the
laser which set the pace-line

800
01:01:52,665 --> 01:01:54,667
so they knew exactly
at what pace to run.

801
01:01:54,711 --> 01:01:58,889
And it also had the lines to
help them stay in the corridor,
if you like.

802
01:01:59,890 --> 01:02:02,414
KETCHELL: The reason that it's
15 meters in front of Eliud

803
01:02:02,457 --> 01:02:05,156
is in order to throw the laser
at a significant distance.

804
01:02:05,765 --> 01:02:09,377
Plus, in order to maintain the
pace precisely.

805
01:02:09,421 --> 01:02:11,075
It doesn't help the runners
behind Eliud

806
01:02:11,118 --> 01:02:13,381
and it doesn't help
Eliud's position,

807
01:02:13,425 --> 01:02:15,470
but it helps those five guys
directly in front of him.

808
01:02:24,349 --> 01:02:27,221
COMMENTATOR: Let's just home in
here on Eliud Kipchoge.

809
01:02:27,265 --> 01:02:29,876
This is a great shot for us
to see the cadence,

810
01:02:29,920 --> 01:02:32,792
and the way the rhythm,
the natural rhythm...

811
01:02:32,836 --> 01:02:35,012
From memory, correct me,
both of you, if I'm wrong,

812
01:02:35,055 --> 01:02:38,276
but I don't think we've had
a kilometer outside 2:52.

813
01:02:38,319 --> 01:02:40,887
- I think that's the slowest
we've had. -SHALENE: Correct.

814
01:02:41,366 --> 01:02:42,976
That's incredible.

815
01:02:43,020 --> 01:02:45,500
If you really think about it,
that is incredible pacing!

816
01:02:48,329 --> 01:02:50,941
HERMENS: Eliud has trained
himself incredibly well

817
01:02:50,984 --> 01:02:53,204
to keep the same
rhythm for two hours.

818
01:02:54,553 --> 01:02:59,210
And the rhythm of all those
different athletes is like a
drum

819
01:02:59,253 --> 01:03:00,515
hammering on the streets.

820
01:03:00,559 --> 01:03:02,691
It reminds me of
that same feeling

821
01:03:02,735 --> 01:03:05,564
of them running in the long runs
in Kenya.

822
01:03:05,607 --> 01:03:08,306
A kind of silence
where you only hear the steps
going on.

823
01:03:08,349 --> 01:03:12,136
For me, ja,
it sounds to me like music.

824
01:03:12,179 --> 01:03:14,834
[RUNNING FOOTSTEPS]

825
01:03:19,534 --> 01:03:22,407
REPORTER: There are people
who are a little bit cynical
about this

826
01:03:22,450 --> 01:03:24,452
and saying "Well,
it's not an official world
record,

827
01:03:24,496 --> 01:03:28,021
and there's so much technology,
so much science, why should we
care?"

828
01:03:28,065 --> 01:03:30,241
COMMENTATOR: There is
something artificial about this

829
01:03:30,284 --> 01:03:34,375
but that's because they want to
see one guy do what no one else
has done before.

830
01:03:34,419 --> 01:03:37,074
It would be incredibly hard
to achieve this in an open race.

831
01:03:37,117 --> 01:03:39,119
And so, I think there is room
in the sport

832
01:03:39,163 --> 01:03:41,948
for both events like this,
and also, like, open races.

833
01:03:41,992 --> 01:03:44,516
London Marathon is fantastic,
and this is fantastic.

834
01:03:44,559 --> 01:03:47,258
REPORTER: Obviously, we know
technology goes into sportswear

835
01:03:47,301 --> 01:03:48,955
and has done for
a very long time,

836
01:03:48,999 --> 01:03:52,132
but we shouldn't underestimate
what's going on on his feet,

837
01:03:52,176 --> 01:03:54,613
and how important they are,
those trainers.

838
01:03:54,656 --> 01:03:56,571
COMMENTATOR: I don't think
we should kid ourselves.

839
01:03:56,615 --> 01:03:59,226
I don't think it would've been
possible to try to go under two
hours

840
01:03:59,270 --> 01:04:01,272
five or ten years ago.

841
01:04:01,315 --> 01:04:05,580
The technology has developed so
fast and he's in the latest
innovation.

842
01:04:05,624 --> 01:04:09,628
He's in shoes that no one else
has ever run before.

843
01:04:09,671 --> 01:04:12,283
It's a step change from where we
were even two years ago.

844
01:04:12,326 --> 01:04:15,677
So, we're talking about, maybe,
a few seconds

845
01:04:15,721 --> 01:04:18,767
which in this context
is an enormous amount of help.

846
01:04:18,811 --> 01:04:20,726
REPORTER: It could be vital.

847
01:04:20,769 --> 01:04:23,120
REPORTER 2: World athletics
are reportedly getting ready to
ban

848
01:04:23,163 --> 01:04:27,428
Nike's Vaporfly shoes
for giving runners an unfair
advantage.

849
01:04:27,820 --> 01:04:30,779
REPORTER 3: The introduction of
the Vaporfly to the running
community

850
01:04:30,823 --> 01:04:33,870
really has changed what we think
of as possible.

851
01:04:35,132 --> 01:04:38,526
In very simplistic terms,
it's almost like a mini pogo
stick.

852
01:04:38,570 --> 01:04:41,442
You put the shoe on and you're
immediately aware that it's
different.

853
01:04:41,486 --> 01:04:43,923
Nike Sports research labs
are working with Kipchoge

854
01:04:43,967 --> 01:04:47,535
on enhancing his shoes
to break that two-hour mark.

855
01:04:47,579 --> 01:04:49,929
REPORTER 4: But I guess the big
question comes down to,

856
01:04:49,973 --> 01:04:54,586
if you're not wearing
the Nike Vaporfly, can you
compete?

857
01:04:54,629 --> 01:04:58,677
REPORTER 5: These shoes
certainly are game-changing and
transformative.

858
01:05:02,507 --> 01:05:06,728
The athletes typically are
sponsored, always sponsored,

859
01:05:06,772 --> 01:05:08,730
by only the shoe industry.

860
01:05:09,514 --> 01:05:11,864
So that industry
controls the sport.

861
01:05:12,473 --> 01:05:16,042
COE: Some of the biggest
sponsors of our sport are the
shoe companies.

862
01:05:16,086 --> 01:05:20,481
We don't really want to be
telling them what they can and
can't do.

863
01:05:20,525 --> 01:05:24,572
But there are obviously things
that we would be concerned about

864
01:05:24,616 --> 01:05:30,187
if that technology started
to become the predominant story.

865
01:05:30,230 --> 01:05:33,712
REPORTER 6: I think the research
right now shows actual
innovation

866
01:05:33,755 --> 01:05:35,844
that blurs the line
of enhancement.

867
01:05:35,888 --> 01:05:37,368
REPORTER 7: It
enhances performance

868
01:05:37,411 --> 01:05:39,544
because it's such
a technological sneaker.

869
01:05:39,587 --> 01:05:42,286
REPORTER 8: The properties
of the carbon fiber plate and...

870
01:05:46,290 --> 01:05:51,556
COE: No society, no market
economy, has ever prospered

871
01:05:51,599 --> 01:05:54,080
by trying to stifle innovation.

872
01:05:55,168 --> 01:05:56,735
I think, whether
we like it or not,

873
01:05:56,778 --> 01:05:59,956
technology comes into a lot of
sports these days.

874
01:06:00,434 --> 01:06:03,568
I mean, look at cycling.
The advances we've made in the
bicycle.

875
01:06:03,611 --> 01:06:06,484
Does that take anything away
from Egan Bernal

876
01:06:06,527 --> 01:06:08,790
or Geraint Thomas when they win
the Tour de France?

877
01:06:08,834 --> 01:06:10,836
They still need to ride it.

878
01:06:11,184 --> 01:06:13,882
PITSILADIS: The world of sport
needs to consider

879
01:06:13,926 --> 01:06:16,885
that the effects of
technological doping

880
01:06:16,929 --> 01:06:20,715
are vastly superior
than traditional doping.

881
01:06:20,759 --> 01:06:22,500
So, therefore, you
and I, the public,

882
01:06:22,543 --> 01:06:37,428
can no longer gauge
what you're watching.

883
01:06:37,471 --> 01:06:46,263
can no longer gauge
what you're watching.

884
01:06:46,306 --> 01:06:50,093
For anybody who says this isn't
right, put the shoes on
yourself.

885
01:06:50,136 --> 01:06:53,009
Wear the same kit,
get yourself down to Vienna,

886
01:06:53,052 --> 01:06:55,707
get a couple of people to run in
front of you, and see how fast
you go.

887
01:07:02,496 --> 01:07:04,281
COMMENTATOR:
Well, this is the sixth of nine
teams.

888
01:07:04,324 --> 01:07:07,197
There are nine
rotations, if you like.

889
01:07:07,240 --> 01:07:10,678
And, there we are, Eric
Kiptanui, who is having a busy
old morning.

890
01:07:10,722 --> 01:07:12,506
He's back on as
the team captain.

891
01:07:12,550 --> 01:07:14,073
COMMENTATOR 2:
I tell you, that guy is in
shape!

892
01:07:16,684 --> 01:07:18,947
NJOROGE: Technology has a place,
and it helps.

893
01:07:18,991 --> 01:07:21,428
But, at the end, it
is the human being.

894
01:07:21,907 --> 01:07:25,432
And I think that's what I find
really amazing with Eliud.

895
01:07:25,476 --> 01:07:30,176
At the end of the day, it is
him. And he knows what really
drives him

896
01:07:30,220 --> 01:07:32,700
and it isn't the technology
that will drive him.

897
01:07:32,744 --> 01:07:34,180
[CHEERING]

898
01:07:38,880 --> 01:07:40,621
[BELL RINGS]

899
01:07:41,883 --> 01:07:45,191
Sub two hours has everything to
do with the changing of times,

900
01:07:45,235 --> 01:07:48,194
changing of history,
changing of sports in general.

901
01:07:48,238 --> 01:07:52,416
But what remains, there is a guy
a fantastic athlete, Eliud
Kipchoge,

902
01:07:52,459 --> 01:07:54,287
who is running 42 kilometers.

903
01:07:54,331 --> 01:07:56,289
Yes, there is some
science involved

904
01:07:56,333 --> 01:07:58,726
but it's still a person
that has to do this.

905
01:08:15,917 --> 01:08:19,182
SANG: I think Eliud did not land
from another planet.

906
01:08:19,225 --> 01:08:22,489
We know what he has done,
we know his potential.

907
01:08:22,533 --> 01:08:24,535
He ran a world record in Berlin.

908
01:08:24,578 --> 01:08:30,584
And I think the opinions of
people should be reflected in
reality

909
01:08:31,542 --> 01:08:33,674
of exactly the journey
he has come through.

910
01:08:47,471 --> 01:08:49,168
COMMENTATOR:
I think there was a slight trip.

911
01:08:49,212 --> 01:08:50,865
- Was there a trip?
- SHALENE: Yes.

912
01:08:50,909 --> 01:08:54,130
I just saw Eliud have a little
trip-up in that transition.

913
01:09:02,225 --> 01:09:03,922
COMMENTATOR: 12K to go, then.

914
01:09:03,965 --> 01:09:06,925
This is where the critical stage
of the race starts.

915
01:09:06,968 --> 01:09:10,711
We can make some comparisons
with how he was going in Monza.

916
01:09:10,755 --> 01:09:14,411
Actually, up to halfway,
he was inside sub two-hour pace.

917
01:09:14,454 --> 01:09:17,370
And at halfway exactly,
he was three seconds inside

918
01:09:17,414 --> 01:09:20,373
and then at 25K,
he was still two seconds inside.

919
01:09:20,417 --> 01:09:24,290
Even at 30K, he was only two
seconds outside sub two-hour
pace.

920
01:09:24,334 --> 01:09:27,989
And he admitted afterwards
that it was in the final 10K

921
01:09:28,033 --> 01:09:29,687
when he really
started to feel it.

922
01:09:29,730 --> 01:09:32,211
SHALENE: Literally no human
has tried to attempt this.

923
01:09:32,255 --> 01:09:34,300
There's a lot of unknowns
physiologically

924
01:09:34,344 --> 01:09:36,259
as to what Eliud can handle.

925
01:09:39,262 --> 01:09:41,220
COMMENTATOR 2: He's putting
himself through something

926
01:09:41,264 --> 01:09:44,354
really, really extraordinary
here, and he will be emotional.

927
01:09:44,397 --> 01:09:48,488
Thoughts bubble up.
Thoughts you think you
suppressed.

928
01:09:48,532 --> 01:09:51,491
Bad demons sit on one shoulder
and good angels sit on the
other.

929
01:09:52,144 --> 01:09:54,146
KIPCHOGE: [ECHOES]
The way you think about pain,

930
01:09:54,190 --> 01:09:56,148
is the way your life will be.

931
01:09:56,192 --> 01:09:58,237
In this world, you need to
undergo pain in order to be
successful.

932
01:09:58,281 --> 01:10:00,892
If you understand
how marathon is,

933
01:10:00,935 --> 01:10:03,503
at the apex of the pain,
that's where success is.

934
01:10:05,679 --> 01:10:08,421
SHALENE: In training, he has
visualized these tough moments

935
01:10:08,465 --> 01:10:12,382
and he's pushed through in
training and said, "This is the
crucial moment.

936
01:10:12,425 --> 01:10:15,254
This is when you have to execute
and push through the pain."

937
01:10:15,298 --> 01:10:17,735
So, he has practiced
this over and over.

938
01:10:19,867 --> 01:10:23,262
COMMENTATOR: We've just detected
the slightest smile-stroke-
grimace

939
01:10:23,306 --> 01:10:25,133
on the face of Eliud Kipchoge.

940
01:10:25,177 --> 01:10:26,874
When the smile appears, Shalane,

941
01:10:26,918 --> 01:10:29,442
that normally suggests
that he's hurting.

942
01:10:29,486 --> 01:10:33,446
SHALENE: Yeah, that's the
classic Eliud, when he is
leaning into that hurt.

943
01:10:33,490 --> 01:10:36,275
It means he's working hard.

944
01:10:36,319 --> 01:10:38,190
COMMENTATOR 2:
He has to be thinking right now,

945
01:10:38,234 --> 01:10:40,540
and I'm sure this is a version
of what he's thinking,

946
01:10:40,584 --> 01:10:41,976
"If not now, when?"

947
01:11:09,221 --> 01:11:12,006
BRAILSFORD: He looked like
he came through that moment.

948
01:11:12,485 --> 01:11:15,793
In the mission control, it was,
like... [EXHALES]

949
01:11:15,836 --> 01:11:18,926
This is on.
This is on now. This is coming!

950
01:11:18,970 --> 01:11:21,494
And it was exciting, like, "Oh!"

951
01:11:21,538 --> 01:11:24,280
It's just those moments,
what you live for in sport!

952
01:11:24,758 --> 01:11:28,022
COMMENTATOR: One and a half
hours about to click round on
the clock.

953
01:11:28,066 --> 01:11:31,635
We have just under 30 minutes
to try and get Eliud Kipchoge

954
01:11:31,678 --> 01:11:34,246
into the history books,
here in Vienna.

955
01:11:34,768 --> 01:11:36,335
And I can't stress enough,

956
01:11:36,379 --> 01:11:39,860
the crowd out on the course
is absolutely phenomenal.

957
01:11:39,904 --> 01:11:42,820
[CHEERING]

958
01:12:05,712 --> 01:12:07,497
[CHEERING]

959
01:12:09,412 --> 01:12:12,110
[CROWD BANGS FENCE
RHYTHMICALLY]

960
01:12:13,894 --> 01:12:16,375
SANG: He gives energy
and he gets energy back.

961
01:12:16,419 --> 01:12:18,638
And that is a wonderful
place to be in.

962
01:12:18,682 --> 01:12:21,075
[CHANTING]

963
01:12:21,119 --> 01:12:24,427
WOMAN: We Kenyans are very good
as a cheer squad.

964
01:12:25,341 --> 01:12:28,082
It's all about the
support at the back

965
01:12:28,126 --> 01:12:30,520
that comes out shining
to the whole world.

966
01:12:32,522 --> 01:12:35,829
WOMAN: [IN GERMAN]

967
01:12:42,445 --> 01:12:45,317
[CHEERING AND SINGING]

968
01:12:48,364 --> 01:12:51,802
BRAILSFORD: He has trained
himself incredibly well for what
is going on

969
01:12:51,845 --> 01:12:56,328
and what he takes in, and what
he shuts down from the outside
world.

970
01:13:18,959 --> 01:13:21,397
COMMENTATOR: Here we go,
this is team number eight.

971
01:13:22,485 --> 01:13:27,098
Wow. I think we just need to
take a pause, don't we, and just
breathe?

972
01:13:34,540 --> 01:13:36,760
COMMENTATOR 2:
I feel very nervous right now.

973
01:13:36,803 --> 01:13:39,240
Because anyone
who has ever run a marathon

974
01:13:39,284 --> 01:13:41,329
will know that the
last few miles,

975
01:13:41,373 --> 01:13:43,680
anything can happen,
and the wheels can come off.

976
01:13:43,723 --> 01:13:47,727
He looks really good.
You're just hoping that he's got
this.

977
01:13:47,771 --> 01:13:49,729
[CHEERING]

978
01:13:59,696 --> 01:14:03,134
COMMENTATOR: Here are the final
team of pacemakers, team number
nine.

979
01:14:03,177 --> 01:14:07,486
They will take them home from 38
kilometers right through to the
finish.

980
01:14:07,530 --> 01:14:10,663
And the captain, of course,
he was the captain in the first
team.

981
01:14:10,707 --> 01:14:12,230
It's Bernard Lagat.

982
01:14:13,623 --> 01:14:17,496
There he is, itching to go,
Bernard Lagat.

983
01:14:17,540 --> 01:14:21,631
And how fitting that the 44
-year-old, the oldest pacemaker
in the team,

984
01:14:21,674 --> 01:14:24,285
the most experienced
and a dear, dear friend of
Eliud,

985
01:14:24,329 --> 01:14:26,505
should be the captain
on the final leg.

986
01:14:26,549 --> 01:14:28,594
We're on the verge of history
here, folks.

987
01:14:39,431 --> 01:14:42,216
KERRISON: We don't know what the
limits of human performance are.

988
01:14:43,130 --> 01:14:45,306
There are people who
think they do know

989
01:14:45,350 --> 01:14:48,135
and remarkable humans,
and teams of humans,

990
01:14:48,179 --> 01:14:50,050
keep proving them wrong.

991
01:14:50,921 --> 01:14:52,966
BRAILSFORD:
Our own individual performances

992
01:14:53,010 --> 01:14:57,536
are nearly always linked
to a collective performance
somewhere.

993
01:14:57,580 --> 01:15:00,757
And I think for all of us,
in all walks of life, in fact,

994
01:15:00,800 --> 01:15:02,454
we're stronger together.

995
01:15:03,281 --> 01:15:08,068
FROOME: It goes so much further
than running. So much further
than sport.

996
01:15:08,112 --> 01:15:09,983
It goes to show

997
01:15:10,027 --> 01:15:13,552
that the preconceived limits
that everyone has on everything
in life,

998
01:15:13,596 --> 01:15:15,467
can be challenged.
It's incredible.

999
01:15:30,134 --> 01:15:32,092
GRACE KIPCHOGE: That line,
"No human is limited,"

1000
01:15:32,136 --> 01:15:34,312
I would impart it on any girl.

1001
01:15:34,355 --> 01:15:37,445
That no matter your gender,
no matter where you're born
from,

1002
01:15:37,489 --> 01:15:39,099
you are not limited.

1003
01:15:39,143 --> 01:15:41,841
You are supposed to actualize
your dreams and your passion.

1004
01:15:43,539 --> 01:15:46,759
LYNNE KIPCHOGE: It means
that you should always work
hard,

1005
01:15:46,803 --> 01:15:48,456
no matter what.

1006
01:15:48,500 --> 01:15:52,548
Not listening to negativity,
but listening to positive minds.

1007
01:15:56,726 --> 01:15:59,598
NDUHIU: In most circumstances,
you and me limit ourselves.

1008
01:15:59,642 --> 01:16:02,819
It is not other people who limit
us. It is us who limit
ourselves.

1009
01:16:02,862 --> 01:16:05,604
And I do believe the moment
we get over that hurdle,

1010
01:16:05,648 --> 01:16:08,999
then you have the whole world
outside there open for you to
conquer.

1011
01:16:25,624 --> 01:16:29,802
SANG: I think the concept is
spreading in all sectors of our
society.

1012
01:16:30,716 --> 01:16:33,806
It is a momentum that is,
to me, positive.

1013
01:16:34,546 --> 01:16:40,117
You meet teachers from different
schools that, when preparing
students,

1014
01:16:40,160 --> 01:16:43,294
they are quoting
the "No human is limited" story.

1015
01:16:43,337 --> 01:16:45,688
And we can see
lives being changed.

1016
01:16:47,559 --> 01:16:49,169
[CHEERING]

1017
01:16:51,345 --> 01:16:53,347
COMMENTATOR: I don't know about
you guys, but my heart,

1018
01:16:53,391 --> 01:16:55,393
I can feel it pounding in my
shirt this morning.

1019
01:16:55,436 --> 01:16:56,742
[CHEERING]

1020
01:16:56,786 --> 01:16:59,876
It's 500 meters to go,
he is almost there.

1021
01:16:59,919 --> 01:17:04,489
He has one hand on history
here in Vienna.

1022
01:17:06,143 --> 01:17:08,362
BRAILSFORD: There was an
agreement, that if he felt good,

1023
01:17:08,406 --> 01:17:11,670
he was gonna tell Valentijn
and the other guys would peel
off.

1024
01:17:11,714 --> 01:17:16,588
And, sure enough, Valentijn gets
the nod and they pulled off. Oh!

1025
01:17:17,589 --> 01:17:19,112
What a wonderful moment!

1026
01:17:19,156 --> 01:17:22,072
What an absolutely
brilliant moment.

1027
01:17:23,073 --> 01:17:26,337
COMMENTATOR: Three hundred
meters to go, let's bring him
home.

1028
01:17:26,380 --> 01:17:28,295
He's pointing.
"Come on!" he says.

1029
01:17:28,861 --> 01:17:32,604
Eliud Kipchoge has the hand of
history on his shoulder.

1030
01:17:33,953 --> 01:17:37,565
Neil Armstrong
we had on the moon in 1969.

1031
01:17:37,609 --> 01:17:41,787
We had Roger Bannister
and the four-minute mile 65
years ago.

1032
01:17:41,831 --> 01:17:46,618
Edmund Hillary,
the first man to climb Everest,
in 1953.

1033
01:17:46,662 --> 01:17:49,360
Eliud Kipchoge is
on his way here.

1034
01:19:07,525 --> 01:19:11,050
[CHEERING]

1035
01:20:07,846 --> 01:20:09,935
[CHEERING]

1036
01:20:16,637 --> 01:20:18,857
BRAILSFORD: It's overwhelming,
you know? It's a big deal.

1037
01:20:18,901 --> 01:20:21,077
People talk about these things,
they look at it.

1038
01:20:21,120 --> 01:20:22,774
"A guy ran a marathon."

1039
01:20:22,818 --> 01:20:25,603
He's the first bloke ever,
ever in the human race,

1040
01:20:25,646 --> 01:20:26,952
in human history, to do that.

1041
01:20:27,910 --> 01:20:29,389
And you think, "Oh, God."

1042
01:20:29,433 --> 01:20:31,827
And in a crazy little way
you've supported that, you know?

1043
01:20:32,566 --> 01:20:34,873
And it means a lot.
It means a lot to a lot of
people.

1044
01:20:34,917 --> 01:20:36,832
It means a lot to me.

1045
01:21:22,747 --> 01:21:24,749
[♪ "OBIERO" BY AYUB OGADA]

1046
01:22:10,012 --> 01:22:10,926
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