“Daddy, I’ll be in the books forever, right?” The heartbreaking story behind the phone call from Olympic marathoner Michael Somers

It was moving TV this summer: Olympic marathoner Michael Somers (29) who crossed the line in Paris and tried to call his dad with the phone of Sporza journalist Maarten Vangramberen. But what no one knew at the time, Somers now tells us: his father Ludo (60) was terminal and would die three days after his son’s miraculous 22nd place. “It was Dad who wanted me to really go for it in Paris.”

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