Mark for 800m challenged at Diamond League finalOlympic 200m champion Tebogo beaten by Bednarek
David Rudisha’s revered 800m world record from the London 2012 Games is safe for another year after a kamikaze attempt on it at the Diamond League final went up in a blaze of lactic acid and burning lungs.
On a cold night in Brussels, the thoughts of many athletes were inevitably on getting through a final night of competition before a well-earned rest at the end of a thrilling but long season. However, the Canadian Marco Arop had other ideas.
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