Briton Wins First Vietnam Marathon
A British corporate lawyer looking for business in Communist Vietnam won the country’s first marathon race Sunday.
Thousands of people lining Le Duan Boulevard and cheered as Tim Soutar, 36, crossed the finish line and walked exhausted through the gates of the old presidential palace. In 1975 North Vietnamese tanks crashed through these gates, ending the long war.
Ten former U.S. soldiers and dozens of Vietnamese veterans--from the North Vietnamese army, the Viet Cong and the South Vietnamese army--ran side by side.
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