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Ironman Lanzarote Canarias 2008
  The Briton Comerford and the Belgian Jammaer win the 17th Ironman Lanzarote Canarias The British Bella Comerford and the Belgian Bert Jammaer won on Saturday, 24th May 2008, the 17th Ironman Lanzarote Canarias. For the 3.8 km swimming, 180 km bicycle, and 42.2 km marathon Comerford needed 10 hours 2 minutes and 38 seconds, whilst Jammaer reached a total time of 8:59.38....


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Mythological backgrounds

 

The Canary Islands. Situated on the Tropic of Cancer. The archipelago of eternal spring. The Elysian Fields. The Garden of the Hesperidins. The island of the Saints. According to the tales of Herodotus, in whose time the earth was still thought to be a disc, its edge signalled by violent waves, writhing above seafarers, the point where the world ended and the seas were no longer master able. Here at the end of the inhabited world; the islands of eternal luck, the “Pupurariae”, Atlantis.

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