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>> LAST 5K, WE EXPECTED THAT.
>> TODD, WE'LL GET BACK TO
YOU IN JUST A MOMENT.
LET'S GO NOW TO CONSTANTINA
TOMESCU-DITA.
>> REPORTER: MARK, I THINK THE
DRAMA IS ABOUT TO UNFOLD.
FROM MY ADVANTAGE POINT IT LOOKS
LIKE DITA'S LEAD IS 15, 20
SECONDS.
I SAY WITHIN THE NEXT MAYBE
800-METERS WE VERY A NEW LEADER
IN THIS WOMEN'S RACE.
>> DO YOU HAVE ANY SENSE AT ALL,
JULIE, THAT CONSTANTINA WOULD
HAVE ANYTHING LEFT IN THE TANK
ONCE SHE GETS CAUGHT?
OR IS IT ONCE SHE GETS
CAUGHT, IT'S OVER.
>> I CAN SEE THAT THE
CADENCE COMING UP FROM
BEHIND HER IS SO MUCH QUICKER
THAN DITA.
SHE HAS BEEN PASSED THE LAST
TWO MILES BY PROBABLY 30 MEN
AND HAS HAD NO RESPONSE.
I THINK THE RACE WILL BE OVER.
>> ALL RIGHT, JULIE.
WE WATCH A SPLIT SCREEN NOW.
THE MEN ON THE LEFT AND
CONSTANTINA STRUGGLING AS THE
REST OF THE WOMEN TRY TO
REEL HER IN.
NJENGA AND CHERUIYOT RUNNING
1-2.
>> NJENGA, HE WAS THE LONE
GUY AT THE PRESS
CONFERENCE WILLING TO COME
OUT AND SAY I'M PREPARED TO
WIN THIS RACE, AND FROM A
KENYAN'S STANDPOINT, THAT'S AS
CLOSE TO SMACK TALKING AS YOU
WILL EVER GET.
>> YOU CAN TELL CHERUIYOT IS
UNCOMFORTABLE.
HE DOESN'T WANT IT TO BE A KICK.
BUT EVERY TIME HE GOES NJENGA
HAS JUST ENOUGH NOT TO BE
BROKEN.
>> SWRIEWLY, YOU SAID
WITHIN 800-LITERS AND THAT
THIS RACE WOULD HAVE A NEW
LEADER AND IT LOOKS
LIKE TOMESCU-DITA IS ABOUT TO BE
LOSING HER LEAD.
> REPORTER: SHE IS BEING PASSED
BY BOGOMOLOVA AND ADERE.
AND DEBETAU-DITA DEBET HAS
NO RESPONSE AS BOGOMOLOVA
IS REALLY, REALLY PUSHING
THIS AND GIVING ADERE A RUN
FOR HER MONEY?
WAS SHE UNAWARE SHE WAS RUNNING
THAT FAST EFERL IN THE RACE?
>> NEW YORK NO NO.
IT'S A MISCALCULATION BUT
SHE'S COURAGEOUS AND GUTSY
AND WANTS TO GO OUT HAFERDND
ALWAYS BELIEVES THAT SHE
CAN HOLD IT.
THE MARATHON IS UNFORGIVING.
YOU CANNOT BE OVER YOUR HEAD
LIKE THAT.
YOUR PERIOD CAN'T SUSTAIN IT.
WHO IS GALINA BOGOMOLOVA?
IT WAS 10 MINUTES FASTER THAN
HER FIRST MARATHON IN VEGAS, IN
LONDON, THAT SHE HAD RUN THREE
MONTHS BEFORE THAT.
SHE IS A SPEEDS TEAR.
-- SPEEDSTER.
ADERE, REALLY, REALLY TALL
FOR AN ETHIOPIAN AND SET A
NEW MARATHON RECORD IN
LONDON WHEN SHE RAN HER 2:00