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TIL in the 1954 Commonwealth Games, marathon runner Jim Peters led into the finishing stadium by 17 minutes. But it took him 11 minutes to cover just 200m of the lap and he fell 7 times before being stretched off the track. He woke up in hospital believing he had won the race; he never raced again.
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'Two steps forward, three to the side. Oh, he's down again'

After running 26 miles, Jim Peters was 17 minutes ahead of his nearest rival and certain of gold. But after he collapsed, only yards from victory and with the pallor of death on his lips, he never ran again, as Frank Keating recalls.

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