Comment on Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again

• imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Wow. Absolute legend

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  • Saleh@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Upon being awarded the prize of A$10,000 (equivalent to $36,011 in 2022), Young said that he did not know there was a prize and that he felt bad accepting it, as each of the other five runners who finished had worked as hard as he did—so he gave A$3,000 to 41-year-old Joe Record and A$4,000 to the other runners, keeping only A$3,000 for himself.[2] Despite attempting the event again in later years, Young was unable to repeat this performance or claim victory again.[8]

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• ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Counter-point: he won the race by being the fastest runner. But I grant you it took him awhile to decide to run the race relative to average life spans and the likely typical marathon runner, so we can just call it a draw.

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