PARIS: Faris Al-Sultan, a Muslim with Iraqi roots who is sponsored by a Munich brewery, won the Ironman Triathlon World Championships in Hawaii at the weekend.
Think of Wimbledon to tennis, the World Cup to football, and the Olympics to many sports events and it gives an idea of the achievement by this naturalised German who swam, biked and ran a total of 226km without stopping at the Holy Grail of triathlon at Kailua-Kona.
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