Austin Flani @FlaniAustin

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Austin Flani @FlaniAustin

a month ago

@KenyaPower @KenyaPower_Care When Reality of being in a third world country, hits you brutally 😆😆... Sasa uku Pwani mturudisha stima lini

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Austin Flani @FlaniAustin

2 months ago

@Makiadi_ All work with no play make Jane a dull girl 😆

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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

4 months ago

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

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Austin Flani @FlaniAustin

9 months ago

@georgediano RIP Gonzallo Lira

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George T. Diano @georgediano

11 months ago

We will mourn Raila Odinga like we never had any differences with him. We will mourn him not because he was always good to us, but because the democracy we enjoy today stands on his shoulders. He bears the scars, and he deserves the credit.🕊️

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Austin Flani @FlaniAustin

11 months ago

@sadhna6389 Send

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Austin Flani @FlaniAustin

a year ago

@LFC RIP

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Sam Ghali, M.D. @EM_RESUS

a year ago

What’s a life-saving medical fact everyone should know?

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Austin Flani @FlaniAustin

a year ago

@AtwoliiYa Tragic 😰

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Austin Flani @FlaniAustin

2 years ago

@MagnusCarlsen Congratulations

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Josh Rainer @JoshRainerGold

2 years ago

Approximately 60% of major marathon events in the last 30 years have been won by Kenyan runners from the Kalenjin tribe. At only .08% of the world population, this should be impossible.

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ROB TASH @mistatash

2 years ago

We took Kenyan students to France to compete with other TVET institutions on the global stage. While the rest of the world showcased AI, 3D tech and STEM-related projects, we presented brick making and cooking. I really felt for the guys. They must have felt so irrelevant!

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SportsDokita (Odogwu ☝️) @Sports_Doctor2

2 years ago

“THE WILLIAMS BROTHERS” (Kweku The Traveler) Inaki Williams, the elder brother of Spanish wing sensation and Euros 2024 winner, Nico Williams had just turned 20 when he asked his mum, “How did we come to Spain?” His mum told him, “Sit down, I think you’re ready to hear the story of papa and me now.” For years, nobody knew that side of Inaki Williams who was now an Athletic Bilbao star with his brother, and his parents refused to tell him the story until he turned 20. His parents, Maria and Felix left Ghana shortly after they got married, they crossed the Sahara desert without food or water. “EVERYONE HAS A STORY TO TELL, BE WILLING TO HEAR IT BEFORE JUDGING” RT! #OdogwuTales

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Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano

2 years ago

🥇 Lamine Yamal becomes the 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 player ever to win Man of the Match in UEFA game. ◉ The 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 player ever to score at the Euros. ◉ The 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 player ever to assist at the Euros. ◉ The 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 player ever to feature at the Euros. ◉ The 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 player ever to feature in el Clásico. ◉ The 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 player ever to score in La Liga game. ◉ The 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 player ever to assist in Barça’s shirt. ◉ The 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 player ever in Barcelona’s history to reach 50 official games. ◉ The 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 player ever to feature in UEFA Champions League knockout game. ◉ The 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 player ever player to score a brace in La Liga history. ◉ The 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 player ever to reach top three podium of the Golden Boy.

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Karel van Oosterom @KvanOosterom

2 years ago

This is the Netherlands. Our Prime Minister of fourteen years leaves office. On a bicycle.

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Austin Flani @FlaniAustin

2 years ago

@ESPNFC Congratulations to him

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Austin Flani @FlaniAustin

2 years ago

@C_NyaKundiH Planning phase

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Austin Flani @FlaniAustin

2 years ago

@C_NyaKundiH Rest in Power Soldier

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Bayer 04 Leverkusen @bayer04_en

2 years ago

HISTORY MADE! 🤩 #Winnerkusen #DeutscherMeisterSVB

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World of Statistics @stats_feed

2 years ago

💪🏼 Most athletically talented countries: 1.🇧🇷 Brazil 2.🇦🇷 Argentina 3.🇷🇺 Russia 4.🇰🇪 Kenya 5.🇿🇦 South Africa 6.🇺🇸 United States 7.🇨🇲 Cameroon 8.🇪🇸 Spain 9.🇨🇳 China 10.🇺🇾 Uruguay According to U.S. News & World Report, 2023