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The Berlin Marathon runs through the Brandenburg Gate

Three days before the formal reunification of Germany, the course crosses the line of the former border and passes through the Brandenburg Gate. The gate has framed the finish ever since. It is the clearest instance in this Journey of a course being a political statement rather than a piece of route planning.

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Recorded on Berlin Marathon

  1. The Berlin blockade and airlift
  2. The Berlin sector border is sealed
  3. American and Soviet tanks face each other on Friedrichstrasse
  4. The first Berlin Marathon, in the Grunewald
  5. Berlin moves its marathon into the city
  6. The Berlin Wall opens
  7. The Berlin Marathon runs through the Brandenburg Gate
  8. The World Marathon Majors series is announced
  9. Kelvin Kiptum runs 2:00:35 in Chicago

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