Sabastian Sawe grins and then bursts into laughter when it is suggested that a world record would have materialised at this year’s Berlin Marathon had there been better conditions.
It is just a month since the Kenyan’s heroic effort right up to the Brandenburg Gate, a run that his coach Claudio Berardelli describes as “courageous,” after passing halfway on track for the world record in 60:16, only to finish in 2:02:16 – his third straight 2:02 marathon attempt. Others might be less complimentary given the daunting, sweltering 25C temperatures that heaped misery on thousands of others that day.
