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On Your Marks, Get Set, Go

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May 27, 2015

For fifteen years Frenchman Francois de la Taille rode on the same Paris métro line and every day he asked himself if it wouldn’t a lot faster to cover the distance between the “Odéon” and “Cluny La Sorbonne” stations on foot. One day he decided to give it a try and the man vs. Métro race was on!

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