Makau overcame not just the challenge of Haile Gebrselassie but also the great Ethiopian's world record time for the marathon – and for good measure, he even hurdled an advertising board before crossing the line in 2hr 3min 38sec, fully 21 seconds inside the world-best Gebrselassie set in the 2008 running of this Berlin Marathon.
The planned changes will create even more hurdles, they say.
Families with children who have special needs or disabilities face even bigger hurdles than most people when it comes to planning for their financial futures.
C10 Coke Shares Decline Coca-Cola's largest bottler, Coca-Cola Enterprises, said it would not meet its growth target in the United States this year and was facing even bigger hurdles in Britain.
Pharmaceuticals need to overcome even higher hurdles, particularly since last year when 100 people died in Panama after ingesting fake ingredients used in cough syrup.
And the government adds even more hurdles by trying to regulate the swaps with a variety of forms and fees as well as inspections of the properties involved to ensure that they are of roughly equal value.
It seems to the writer that if a good steeplechase, or even a hurdles race, were run off occasionally on weekends, it would earn new friends for the sport.
Of course, not every de-extinction project faces the same ethical or even technical hurdles and mammoths are not the only candidate species for de-extinction whose resurrection might have ecological benefits.
The proposal by President Pervez Musharraf presented a new opportunity to resolve the dispute between the nuclear-armed neighbors, political commentators said, even though hurdles remain on the path to peace.
Coca-Cola's largest bottler said yesterday that it would not meet its growth target in the United States this year and that it was facing even bigger hurdles in another major market, Britain.
