tuckey alina the berlin marathon is always seen as a fast race but no new records today. well as you just said president marathon is known for fast times and public records but no world record was broken here today but we did come awfully close although that wasn't the intention of the organizers there ain't this time around. this year was just about making this a very attractive a very close race and that's how we got it and but the rain of course has been really a bit of a damp not as many. have come out in every part of the route so far rain but a beautiful backdrop to talk us through some of the. yeah so we had of course the kenyan dominance at the berlin marathon has finally ended it was the ethiopians that basically dominated the podium 10 and he said take a lay i mean what a comeback for the 37 year old he ended up finishing this race in 2 hours and minute and 41 seconds as you just mentioned he came so close to reaching to basically he just missed the world record by 2 seconds people need to understand that this is a major comeback for me for him he was a late ent

tuckey from b.w. sports is here to tell us more about this story good morning alina so what does this case tell us about iran's approach to international sporting competition i think it gives us the i think it just basically tells us that sports in iran is still a highly highly politicized and that iranian politics before everything else that that reign supreme but cite more i use case is very typical of that of many other ukrainian athletes who have been told not to compete against the off position and the main reason for that is of course because iran does not recognize the state of east for a while and sometimes they'll even offer an athlete money to say don't compete and in return we'll give you compensation but there's also a huge element of inequality in uranian sports we see that with the ban on women in terms of when it comes to attending put on matches and that was highlighted by the tragic event events earlier this week by the glue. who ended up dying after burning herself for protesting a prison sentence for attending a football match and of course iranian women as well they told to compete i