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Age didn’t kill India’s beloved centenarian marathon runner. A speeding car did.
By Omkar Khandekar , Kusum Arora In London in the winter of 1999, running coach Harmandar Singh took on a new student who was older than his father. Fauja Singh was 89, thin as a reed, and had a scraggy beard that nearly reached his chest. For their first marathon training session that November morning,…