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By Channel 4 News

Updated on 21 March 2009

Two runners set a world record by running seven 50-kilometre ultra-marathons in seven days on seven continents, for charity.

But two of their colleagues failed to complete the round-the-world challenge, which ended in London today.

Elodie Harper went to see the exhausted men cross the finishing line.

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