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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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| 04/04/2008 - Stage 5 : Oued Ahssia/Isk
N’Brahim : 42,2 km |
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Weather
conditions at 8.00am : 16 °C / 24% hygrometry
Weather conditions at 12.00 : 46,7
C / 12% hygrometry
Stage 5 Men rankings
1. Aziz El Akad (28) 3h10m18s
2. Salameh Al Aqra (71) 3h10m36s
3. Mohamad Ahansal (1) 3h11m48s
4. Mustapha Ait Amar (4) 3h13m12s
5. Jorge Aubeso (622) 3h27m58s
6. Lorenzo Trincheri (458) 3h28m52s
7. Samir Akhdar (2) 3h32m55s
8. Lhoucine Akhdar (3) 3h32m55s
9. Hamid Larhalmi (319) 3h38m41s
10. Marco Olmo (460) 3h40m01s
Stage 5 Women rankings
1. Touda Didi (6) 4h14m29s
After the mythical 75,5
km stage, completed over two days and causing 19
competitors to give up,
comes the classical 42,2km marathon stage. This
year’s edition of the MDS may have been
lucky enough to be spared violent gusts of wind,
but it got its full share of heat: temperatures
went wild today, turning the race track into
a proper furnace and giving each runner the feeling
to be “sous le soleil, exactement” (“under
the sun, precisely” as the Serge Gainsbourg
song goes).
Today’s stage winner, Moroccan runner Aziz
El Akad, is a true “classic marathon” expert
; he was extremely motivated from the start. Together
with Jordanian competitor Salameh Al Aqra’ he
gave on-lookers the surreal spectacle of a final
sprint. Mohamad Ahansal, happy to follow the fight
from close behind, was escorted by many children
all through the stage: “that’s what
I did too, many years ago. I hope that one day
they can run the MDS as official competitors”.
Fellow Moroccan runners El Akad and Ait Amar consolidated
their 3rd and 4th position in the general ranking,
right before Spanish runner Jorge Aubeso.
As to amazing Touda Didi, the fireworks go on with
no true challenger: no one can doubt she is simply
the best. |
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