A lap around the globe.

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There was no cash prize or Olympic medal at stake. Jesper Olsen of Denmark was shooting for two entries in the Guinness Book of World Records: one for running the longest distance ever, another for running a lap around the world. Olsen, a 35-year-old political scientist at the University of Copenhagen, completed his trip on October 23. It had taken him one year and 10 months, averaging 28 miles a day, for a total of more than 16,000 miles. (He crossed large bodies of water by airplane.)...

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