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Veteran Photo to have a go at Comrades glory

COMRADES MARATHON

AT 44 YEARS of age, you’d expect road runner Rufus Photo to be slowing down and considering life beyond the sport he has chosen as his profession. That, though, is not the case for the man who hails from Ga-Chokoe village in Moletjie, near Polokwane in Limpopo.

Photo, who runs for KwaZulu- Natal-based Black Diamond AC, is dreaming big. Way too big, some would argue.

“I want a podium finish at Comrades Marathon this year,” Photo says during an interview with Independent Newspapers ahead of today’s Makoro Village Marathon in Ga-Molepo. “And I am going to use this race as part of my training. I

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