1,000,000th finisher

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FML Jan 2016 8:22am, 29 Jan 2016 10,229 posts	0 FML Listening to Radio 2 this morning about the 1,000,000th finishers plus you can get a T-Shirt with your personal finishing positions Anyone got a link for this? Thanks
PeeG Jan 2016 8:49am, 29 Jan 2016 140 posts	0 PeeG They have tweeted this: twitter.com "#oneinamiion special edition #LondonMarathon T-shirts will be available to order from FEB 5th"
sallykate Jan 2016 8:51am, 29 Jan 2016 4,132 posts	0 sallykate Someone might want to tweet again with a better hashtag...
PeeG Jan 2016 9:24am, 29 Jan 2016 141 posts	0 PeeG They have obviously spotted it now sallykate as they have deleted it. More details here: virginmoneylondonmarathon.com
ERM Jan 2016 9:38am, 29 Jan 2016 272 posts	0 ERM "A database of finishers has been created which involved manually inputting 20 years of historical results data" Y'know, I criticise the VLM for a few things, but it's job creation scheme is second to none.
Spleen Jan 2016 10:20am, 29 Jan 2016 1,334 posts	0 Spleen Manually inputted? 1981 was hardly the Stone Age. I've heard they even had primitive computers, which were basically gigantic steam-powered abaci that took up an entire skyscraper and the beads were moved back and forth by trained monkeys in place of electronic 1s and 0s. I think by manually inputted they mean that someone manually copied and pasted the old CSV files into Excel one morning, then spent two weeks playing Hearthstone and billed VLM for two weeks' consultancy.
Oranj Jan 2016 10:27am, 29 Jan 2016 172 posts	0 Oranj +1 Spleen. Until fairly recently (say, three or four years ago IIRC) nearly all the historical results were available on the London Marathon website - you just had to type the relevant URL into the address bar because links to them had been removed from the web pages
Daz Love Jan 2016 10:27am, 29 Jan 2016 230 posts	0 Daz Love Have they said what position is the 1,000,000th?
BaronessBL Jan 2016 10:51am, 29 Jan 2016 5,045 posts	0 BaronessBL According to their website 'themen’s winner on 24 April will be #oneinamillion 964334.' So however many after that person crosses the line looks for calculator
Fizz :-) Jan 2016 11:36am, 29 Jan 2016 1,473 posts	0 Fizz :-) Someone near the back - maybe it won't happen at all this year . . .