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Portraits
Laurie
Andrews (465) and Michele Jensen (500), positive
Helder
Alexandre Sousa Ferreira (613), surprising
Desert
Team 22 (328, 329, 330, 331,332), focused
Ian
Sharman (821), motivated
Shigemi
Hazama (631), hilarious
Gilles
Diehl (141), modest
Mohamad
Ahansal (1), under pressure
Al
Aqra’ Salameh (71), ambitious
Jorge
Aubeso Martinez (622), zen
Touda
Didi (6), determined
Ryan
Gregory (526), hollywoodian
Sylvie
Alcala Bournat (187), serene
Stéphane
Lesoin (207), reliable
Louis
Cornevin (48), passionate
David
and Mark Simon (531 and 532), together
Paddy
Haddock (892), fishy |
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Weather at 8.00am: 19,8 °C
/ 40% hygrometry
Weather at 12.00: 40 °C / 16%
hygrometry
Men ranking stage 2
1.Mohamad Ahansal (1) 2h49m24s
2.Salameh Al Aqra
(71) 2h50m38s
3.Jorge Aubeso
(622) 2h54m18s
4.Aziz El Akad (28)
2h55m13s
5.Samir Akhdar (2)
3h05m38s
6.Lhoucine Akhdar (3)
3h05m38s
7.Mustapha Ait Amar
(4) 3h07m19s
8.Hamid Larhalmi
(319) 3h07m19s
9.Mohammad Al Swaiti
(70) 3h08m06s
10.Lorenzo Trincheri
(458) 3h08m16s
Women ranking
stage 2
1. Touda Didi (6) 3h54m26s
Runners awoke with
a smile on their lips. The dunes belonged to the
past, but they did some damage
(6 competitors gave up), cooling down the least
experienced competitors’ ardour. Today’s
stage, with less sand and more rocky surfaces,
was done with at infernal speed (13,5km per hour)
by the lead runners, and most notably the two favourites
Mohamad Ahansal (1) and Salameh Al Aqra’ (71)
who never let go of their top positions. On the
finish line, the Jordanian competitor, who seemed
happy enough with his second rank, paid homage
to his Moroccan rival: “yes, yes, he’s
the champ”. Mohamad looked at him, thanked
him, but didn’t seem to believe him: “the
race is far from finished”. The Spanish runner
Jorge Aubeso (622) gave renewed proof of his great
shape, with a beautiful third ranking. He’s
now fully reassured as to his knee trouble and
can officially admit at last he would like to finish
amongst the first three.
On the women’s side,
Toda Didi keeps shining. Not only was she the first
woman to reach the finish
line, but she came 33rd in the general ranking.
Runners
went through a village called Jdaid where a cooperative
workshop, a day centre for children
and a health centre were built in 2007 thanks to
the work of the EAUSOLEIL charity Yet another sign
that the Marathon des Sables is not just a sport
competition… |
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