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Italian Runner Wins Venice Marathon After Frontrunners Make A Disastrous Mistake

 

25 kilometers into Sunday’s Huawei Venice Marathon, it appeared as though race favorites Gilbert Kipleting Chumba or David Kiprono Metto would come away with a victory. But in a scene straight out of a Looney Tunes cartoon, the top seven pack leaders were led astray after the lead motorcycle took a wrong turn.

The seven leaders — Bernard Bett Kiplangat, Moses Kemei Kipngetich, Robert Kiplimo, Abdullah Shami, Mutai Kipkemei, and the already mentioned Chumba and Metto — were led by the motorcycle off course and onto a busy thoroughfare. After several hundred meters, the pack realized they were headed in the wrong direction and turned back onto the marathon route. 

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https://sports.good.is/articles/wrong-turn-venice-marathon

 

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The winner owes that motorcycle driver a nice cigar!