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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Fine

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Speaker 1: from Newstalks ed B.

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Speaker 2: Before we do anything else, can we just marvel at

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Speaker 2: what Sam Ruth continues to do. The teenage running star

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Speaker 2: continues to astound with groundbreaking feats and records. He has today,

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Speaker 2: as I just mentioned, run the fastest ever mile by

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Speaker 2: a New Zealander.

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Speaker 3: We're looking potentially at a sub three fifty mile for

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Speaker 3: a sixteen year old. Harry comes Sam Ruth. Oh my word,

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Speaker 3: can you believe that the sixteen year old just went crazy?

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Speaker 3: With one hundred a go, Sam Ruth, three forty two

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Speaker 3: on the clock. Here he comes, bring it home, Sam Ruth,

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Speaker 3: sub three fifty Can you believe it? Three forty eight

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Speaker 3: point eight Sam Ruth? Wow? What an unbelievable talent.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad the race didn't go any longer. Not so

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Speaker 2: the commentator's voice would have held out. Competing in the

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Speaker 2: Boston University John Thomas Terrier Classic, Sam Ruth has run

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Speaker 2: three minutes forty eight point eight eight seconds. That smashes

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Speaker 2: the New Zealand indoor men's record previously set by Nick Willis.

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Speaker 2: Also beats his own under twenty mile record now Willis

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Speaker 2: ran three minutes fifty one point six in New York

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Speaker 2: nearly ten years ago to the day, and sam Ruth's

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Speaker 2: time also faster than Sir John Walker's outdoor record three

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Speaker 2: minutes forty nine eight he set that back in nineteen

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Speaker 2: eighty two. If sam Ruth continues along these lines, and

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Speaker 2: there's nothing to suggest that he won't, then he's going

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Speaker 2: to break Sir John Walker's outdoor time. He's already run

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Speaker 2: faster than that indoors, and there's a different dynamic of course,

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Speaker 2: no wind conditions a long karma, so so indoor records

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Speaker 2: tend to be faster. But to go under that three

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Speaker 2: minutes forty nine oh eight that John Walker ran in

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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty two incredible. Sam Ruth was the youngest in

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Speaker 2: the race by three years and competing in a field

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Speaker 2: of professional athletes, including many who have been to the Olympics.

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Speaker 2: Peter Sisk, who came second in three minutes fifty point

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Speaker 2: three to one, represented Belgium at the last Olympic Games. Incidentally,

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Speaker 2: the fastest ever indoor mile the time currently held by

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Speaker 2: Norwegian jakeb Ingebrits, and he ran three forty five fourteen

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Speaker 2: man that's quick. But just last week, of course, Sam

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Speaker 2: Ruth became the fastest sixteen year old to ever run

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Speaker 2: the mile. He did that at the Cook's Classic and

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Speaker 2: fan Anubi clocking three minutes fifty three point eight three.

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Speaker 2: So all these numbers, you know, you probably hear them

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Speaker 2: and you think they all sort of mold into one,

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Speaker 2: but the one that we have to remember from today

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Speaker 2: is three minutes forty eight point eight eight seconds. No

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Speaker 2: New Zealander has ever run a competitive mile faster than that.

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Speaker 2: And he's sixteen. He is sixteen years old. Incredible, just incredible.

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Speaker 2: More to come on this across the next next few days.

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Speaker 2: I saw a brief interview with Sam Ruth who said

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Speaker 2: he was surprised then he went that fast. Incredible. What

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Speaker 2: could he go on to do? Middle distance runners typically

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Speaker 2: peak kind of in their late twenties. He's sixteen.

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