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@mulekezi_

‘To know the road ahead, ask those coming back’

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Ndugu@mulekezi_·
Am just here to appreciate what the Lord has done for me in my life thus far🙏🏽🙏🏽! Many times i have taken it for granted.Thank you Lord
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VT@VusiThembekwayo·
David didn't pray for Goliath. He killed him.
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Anish Moonka
Anish Moonka@anishmoonka·
Nike spent ten years trying to break the 2-hour marathon. They named a project after it. They built special shoes. They paid the greatest marathoner alive to chase it. Yesterday, a Kenyan runner finally did it in 1:59:30, wearing Adidas. Sabastian Sawe used to be a pacemaker. A pacemaker is the kind of runner you hire to set the speed for the first few miles of a race and then drop out before the finish. In January 2022, Sawe got booked to do exactly that at a half-marathon in Spain. He'd never raced more than three miles in his life. He stayed in for the full 13 and won the whole thing. Adidas signed him not long after. Four years later, he became the first human ever to run an official marathon under 2 hours. Nike, meanwhile, started this whole project in 2016 with a public goal called "Breaking2." They paid for the shoes, the pacemakers, the science labs, and Eliud Kipchoge himself. Kipchoge ran 1:59:40 in Vienna in 2019, but the event was a closed-course exhibition with rotating pacemakers and a pace car projecting a green laser line onto the road. The sport's governing body never recognized it as a real race. It didn't count. Then Nike's running business cratered. Digital sales fell 26% in one quarter. Their share of footwear sold at Dick's Sporting Goods went from 39% to 32% in five months. On Running grew from $330 million to $1.8 billion between 2020 and 2025. Hoka nearly quadrupled. Roger Federer left Nike for On. Nike's board fired the CEO in October 2024. Adidas spent the same period building a better shoe. The new Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3 took three years to develop. It weighs 97 grams, about 3.4 ounces, lighter than a deck of cards. A Wall Street Journal-cited study found that wearing a shoe 3.5 ounces lighter saves a runner around 57 seconds across a marathon. Sawe beat the third-place finisher by 58 seconds. Adidas also did something Nike never did for Kipchoge. They wrote a $50,000 check to the official anti-doping body for track and field, asking it to test Sawe more aggressively than any other runner alive. He got tested 25 times in the two months before last year's Berlin Marathon, and Adidas signed up to fund this for the length of his contract. The logic: the moment Sawe ran a marathon this fast, the world was going to ask if he cheated, especially after his countrywoman Ruth Chepngetich got a 3-year doping ban in 2025. Adidas got out ahead of it. The shoe retails at $500 and is barely available. Adidas's Adizero shoes won half of all major marathon races in 2024. Yesterday in London, four of the top five finishers wore the same Adidas shoe. Yomif Kejelcha crossed the line 11 seconds after Sawe and also broke 2 hours. The top three runners all beat the previous world record. Nike's only response was an Instagram post. Three sentences long: "The clock has been reset. There is no finish line." That was their entire public reaction to losing a 10-year moonshot to their biggest rival.
adidas@adidas

1:59:30. Humanity just got faster. Powered by Adizero. #YouGotThis

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Chelsea FC
Chelsea FC@ChelseaFC·
Club statement: Liam Rosenior
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Troll Football@TrollFootball·
Liam Rosenior: “We lost because we were playing against two teams, Brighton & Hove Albion.”
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E@Ellis_·
The UK government actually destroyed Chelsea.
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kenna
kenna@kennagq·
Chelsea you better behave. This is bigger than your mediocre aspirations This is about the fate of football twitter.. Your only job is to LOSE just lose. Leave the rest to us
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Thando@uShozi·
"Why argue with an Arsenal fan when you can just wait?"
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Ndugu@mulekezi_·
We want more hills😂😂 what a well organised night run🔥🔥
Moses Rutahigwa@MosesRutahigwa

First, thank you @mutungomadbus for another well-organised Midnight Run. This is now your signature brand and you are getting better by the day. To all the partners, the running family is always indebted to your generous support. You bring value to this recreational community. Finally, I must admit, these guys are special jolly characters. You have to be with them to understand them. A running world is a free world.

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Moses Rutahigwa
Moses Rutahigwa@MosesRutahigwa·
First, thank you @mutungomadbus for another well-organised Midnight Run. This is now your signature brand and you are getting better by the day. To all the partners, the running family is always indebted to your generous support. You bring value to this recreational community. Finally, I must admit, these guys are special jolly characters. You have to be with them to understand them. A running world is a free world.
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The Tennis Letter
The Tennis Letter@TheTennisLetter·
Jannik Sinner congratulating 19 year old Italian Formula 1 Driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli on winning the Chinese Grand Prix. Italian horsepower. 🎾🏎️ 🇮🇹❤️🇮🇹
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World Athletics
World Athletics@WorldAthletics·
KIPLIMOOOOOO 👑 🇺🇬’s Jacob Kiplimo takes 10 seconds off the half marathon world record to win at the EDP Lisbon Half Marathon in 57:20* 🔥 *Pending usual ratification procedures
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Squidge Rugby
Squidge Rugby@SquidgeRugby·
This is maybe the best Six Nations in history. And this weekend has been one of the greatest rounds the tournament has ever had.
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Formula 1
Formula 1@F1·
ISACK!! 👏 He secures his best ever starting position on his Red Bull debut with a P3 at Albert Park 😎 #F1 #AusGP
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The Shift Journal
The Shift Journal@TheShiftJournal·
Malcolm Gladwell explaining why some people succeed and some don't.
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Ndugu@mulekezi_·
Just RE-watched Kabza’s set from the Mezo bash and my goodness, Ngyozama would have been for tears if i was on ground! What a song!
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Piano Connect
Piano Connect@PianoConnectSA·
Kabza De Small vibing to his song “Ngyozama” 🔥🔥
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Piano Connect
Piano Connect@PianoConnectSA·
Kabza De Small, Stakev & Young Stunna vibing to “Ngyozama” this is not just a song man😭🔥
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