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Hello, now in the previous episode of newscast, we were chatting to my colleague at Westminster

Nicod Lai, who is doing the London marathon on Sunday.

Well, another running story has come along in the news.

Today, a Scottish ultramarathon runner called Joasha Zakashewski has been disqualified

for using a car to take part in an ultramarathon in the northwest.

Now luckily, the BBC has an in-house runner, and it is Newsreader Sophie Rayworth, who's

here. Hello. Hello.

Now, I suppose you pined the pavements as a runner, not as a reporter, but would you like

to, what do you know about this story?

I only know what I have read. It's a very strange story, though, isn't it?

So she's a really good runner. She's a very accomplished runner.

I mean, back in February, she broke the record for the furthest run in 48 hours, which I

think was something like 256 miles, almost that.

A long way.

So she's a really, really good ultramarathon runner, and she seems to have got off a plane

from Australia, gone to do this race, 50 miles, which is not something I would ever take

on lightly.

I certainly couldn't do it on jet lag. And so she's got off the plane, gone and done that.

And then obviously, she says she got injured or was limping or something halfway through,

saw somebody. I think she was obviously about to pull out.

And you have to, under the rules of these races, you have to get to the next checkpoint

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