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These are the slowest fastest women on Earth. And they have a story to tell | Jonathan Liew
The noise is the first thing everyone mentions. They can hear the hubbub as they wait for their race to be called, and it builds as they walk through the warren of corridors, towards the little square of light that may as well be a threshold between the …