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#79 Marathon Relay

Ruritania is thrilled to be hosting The Continental Games, and the Queen has decreed that two of the country’s greatest athletes, Rimsky and Korsakov, will take it in turns to carry the torch on its 26.2-mile journey from the harbour to the stadium. For each leg of the journey, the athlete can choose to run for any distance between 1 and 3 miles before handing over the torch to the other. Of course, Rimsky and Korsakov both privately hope that they will be the one who runs the last leg and hence gets to light the Continental…

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