The 33-year-old marathon world record holder started confidently enough but eventually had no answer to Goucher, who produced an astounding performance for a woman who had never previously run such a distance competitively.

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The WWII-era pillbox, as it is called, was built to defend the United States from enemy boats that, thanks to war remaining at a safe distance, never reached its shores.

BBC: Abandoned New York City

"And they took her for a walk, and they came back in a short distance, and we never saw her again, " he says, raising an eyebrow under his cowboy hat.

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"I've already seen it from a distance, but I've never seen it up close and it's not the same, " he said while visiting in Times Square.

WSJ: Statue Is Alone Until Island Repaired

Despite his modesty about the performance, Tancock won by some distance, roaring into the lead and never facing much of a challenge from eventual silver medallist Hayden Stoeckel of Australia.

BBC: First Commonwealth Games golds for England and Scotland

It is thought the record Tommy Godwin set in 1939 for the longest distance cycled in a single year - 75, 065 miles - has never been broken.

BBC: Cyclist Tommy Godwin's achievements tweeted

Due to the short distance the next game is never far away and we will offer the fans a network of free public transport and two million free bikes.

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Our objective is to use technology to take advantage of the fact that distance between learners sometimes provides opportunities for learning that would never work as well in a traditional classroom.

FORBES: A New Kind of Distance Learning

Although the name of the site has never officially been changed, the operators were clearly trying to put distance between the disaster and the nuclear plant as a whole.

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