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Twenty-three runners from seven countries participated in a marathon held on Sunday at the geographic North Pole. They arrived from Norway on a French polar vessel and ran laps of a 1,055-metre loop. The course vanished as the ice shifted, according to organisers, only a few hours after the races concluded.
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