Faith Kipyegon falls short in bid to run sub-4-minute mile
When Olympic gold medalist Faith Kipyegon crossed the finish line after four laps at the Stade Charléty in Paris, she had trimmed more than a full second off her world record mile time, though she came several seconds short in her hunt to become the first woman to run a mile in under four minutes. She ran it in 4 minutes 6.42 seconds at the closed-course event Thursday, besting the previous world record, which she set two years ago.
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