24 oktober 2018 kl 07:52
Nej, egentligen inte. 2014 var ett mycket speciellt år: Steene var tvungen att avbryta för att hinna med sitt flyg. Den enda kvarvarande medtävlaren valde då att också bryta. Båda fick alltså DNF enligt tävlingens regler. Man kan ibland läsa att Steene vann, men det är alltså inte korrekt.
Från TrailRunner Magazine:
"In 2014 the race went for 49 hours. The winning distance: 204.2 miles. Actually, “winning” isn’t really the correct term. Johan Steene, 40, of Stockholm, Sweden, and Jeremy Ebel, 30, of Lafayette, Colorado, started on Saturday morning, October 18th with a pack of 40 other runners. Saturday became Sunday. Sunday became Monday. The two dueled for so long that Steene was in danger of missing his flight back to Sweden. So, with no other option, he was forced to drop. In an ultimate sign of sportsmanship, Ebel chose to drop as well. So both men ran 204.183 miles, which is an incredible feat. What’s even more incredible is that because of the Last Man Standing rule, they both actually lost."
