London calling: runner's Olympic buzz

By Chris Wilson
Updated April 18 2018 - 10:45pm, first published May 18 2012 - 3:00am

Martin Dent was on a lunch-break from his public service job, about 10 kilometres into his 15 kilometres jog around Lake Burley Griffin's east basin, when the phone inside a plastic zip-lock bag began to buzz within his sweaty palm.

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