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Sports43 FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 2014 Ultramarathon traces Berlin Wall, 25 years on BERLIN: More than 300 ultramarathon run- protective wall” which the former commu- Each runner who makes the full dis- Asisi depicting daily life along the Wall in ners will start a gruelling race tomorrow nist East Germany started building on tance will receive a medal with the image the 1980s. By remembering Germany’s along the 100-mile path of the old Berlin August 13, 1961. Designed to stop an exo- of Peter Fechter, who was 18-years-old painful division, “we can all help to ensure Wall, a quarter-century after it fell in the dus of people to the West, it cut through when he was shot dead by border guards that this doesn’t happen again, at least in heady days that brought down commu- city blocks, neighbourhoods, fields and during a 1962 escape attempt near the Germany,” said Eichner, for whom the Wall nism. Extreme athletes from around the forests and was shadowed by a heavily well-known border crossing Checkpoint evokes the ongoing division of North and world will join the third event of its kind in mined “death strip”, overlooked by watch Charlie. South Korea. the German capital, which will also be a his- towers and patrolled by soldiers and dogs. In all, 305 competitors from 24 coun- torical pilgrimage along the symbol of the Today the path of the Wall is a hiking ‘Running with our heads’ tries are set to join, reflecting the growing Cold War. “I was astonished by the size and and cycling trail, which takes a seasoned The race, called “100MeilenBerlin” popularity of such endurance contests that length of the Wall and the places it passed,” ultramarathon runner 16 to 30 hours to (100MilesBerlin), starts at 0400 GMT in include the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc and said the oldest registered participant, Sigrid complete, depending in part on the weath- Prenzlauer Berg, which since Germany’s the notorious Badwater run in California’s Eichner, 73, of the 160-kilometre stretch.
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