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London Marathon goes virtual but its world-beating ability to unite never more vital | Sean Ingle

Sunday’s 40th edition of the race will be like no other but that it is being staged at all is cause for celebration in troubled timesThere is a day in the sporting calendar that I can guarantee will put a wide smile on my face – in fact, I can time the moment it happens to the nearest minute. It comes at 7.01pm on the last Sunday of April as I head towards Green Park tube station at the end of a long day covering the London Marathon. Without fail there are runners being propped up by friends, their walks now a waddle, having got around the 26.2-mile course in five or maybe six hours. In truth it looks like...

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