Sabastian Sawe speaks with BBC Sport's Gabby Logan after the Kenyan became the first person in history to run a sub-two-hour marathon in race conditions to win the 2026 London Marathon.
Kenya's Sebastian Sawe has shattered the final frontier in distance running, proving once again that East Africa doesn't just participate in marathon history. It writes it. While the West obsesses over tech disruption, African athletes continue delivering the kind of human breakthroughs that actually matter, with Sawe's sub-two-hour barrier smash representing decades of Kenyan running dominance reaching its inevitable, glorious conclusion. The question isn't whether more Africans will follow, but how quickly the rest of the world will stop pretending they can keep up.
Kenya's Sebastian Sawe has shattered the final frontier in distance running, proving once again that East Africa doesn't just participate in marathon history. It writes it. While the West obsesses over tech disruption, African athletes continue delivering the kind of human breakthroughs that actually matter, with Sawe's sub-two-hour barrier smash representing decades of Kenyan running dominance reaching its inevitable, glorious conclusion. The question isn't whether more Africans will follow, but how quickly the rest of the world will stop pretending they can keep up.
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