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Sporting Witness: The King of Comrades

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04/04/2019 GMT

The King of Comrades

BBC World Service - Sporting Witness, The King of Comrades

How Bruce Fordyce won South Africa's famous Comrades Marathon nine times in the 1980s.

Between 1981 and 1990, Bruce Fordyce won South Africa’s Comrades Marathon – one of the most famous races in Africa – a record nine times. He talks to Simon Watts about one of the ultimate tests of endurance and how he used the event to protest against the Apartheid regime.

PHOTO: The start of the Comrades Marathon (AFP/Getty Images)

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