World record holder and three-time Olympic Gold medalist Usain Bolt will run in this month's Boston Marathon, RW Daily has learned.
The Jamaican superstar sprinter has been hired to run as a "rabbit," pacing the leaders through mile 15, in Wellesley, before stepping off the course.
If Bolt "pulls a Pilkington" and keeps going, however, he could easily run away with the race. He will be, by far, the fastest runner toeing the line in Hopkinton; assuming he maintains his world record 100 meter pace for the duration of the marathon, he'll reach the finish line in 1:08:36. That would demolish the current world record of 2:03:59, set by Haile Gebrselassie at the September 2008 Berlin Marathon, and bring us tantalizingly close to the sub-1-hour marathon.
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