Now, James Bowthorpe, a 32-year-old Londoner, is just 18 days from proving that it is not.

现今，32岁的伦敦人詹姆斯·伯索皮仅用了18天，证明那并不是不可打破的记录。

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Bowthorpe has been on the road now for five months, and still has to reach the east coast of the USA, fly to Portugal and race home through Spain and France.

伯索尔目前已经在路上5个月了，仍然还需到达美国的东岸，飞到葡萄牙，通过西班牙和法国骑回家。

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But when prospective sellers, including German Prince Michael zu Salm-Salm, checked, they learned Shapiro had no operations, no cash reserves and a pool of private stock of unpersuasive value, says Bowthorpe.

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The cigarettes were being smuggled into the country from Poland, Latvia and Romania by Milian Matei, 38, of Bowthorpe Close, Northampton, Dmitrijs Smirnovs, 26, of Benton Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, and Aleksandrs Maculevics, 26, of Archer Road, also in Stevenage.

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