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Everywhere you looked on this deliriously balmy Parisian night, world records were being attacked, toppled, torn apart.
Officially there was a 20,000-capacity crowd in the Stade Charléty. But as the fans stood and stomped and roared while Faith Kipyegon, Lamecha Girma, and Jakob Ingebrigtsen powered to two world records and another world best they sounded like three times that. All in all, it made for an astonishing hors doeuvres before next year’s Olympics.
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