World's longest tiramisu record broken in London The record for the world's longest tiramisu has been broken in London. One-hundred Italian chefs gathered at Chelsea Town Hall on Saturday and Sunday to whip up a tiramisu long enough to topple the previous record set by Milanese Galbani in Milan, which stood at 273.5m (897ft). As per Guinness World Record rules, the record-breaking tiramisu was made and assembled live on site, and used 50,000 ladyfinger biscuits and more than 3,000 eggs. The record was broken with the dessert measuring 440.6 m (1,445ft). Mirko Ricci, the man behind the London record attempt, originally held the record in 2017 in Italy, but another Italian team broke that in 2019.

Kenyan runner Sabastian Sawe set a new men's marathon world record at the London Marathon, finishing in 1 hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds on Sunday.

With the London Marathon coming up this weekend, many may be wondering if we will see a runner achieve a time under two hours. The world record for the fastest 26.2 mile (42.2 km) run is 2 hours, 1 minute and 9 seconds, as set by Eliud Kipchoge during the 2022 Berlin Marathon. He actually beat this time, and achieved the elusive sub-two hour milestone, three year's prior in a park in Vienna, Austria, but this was not recognised as a record. The London race would meet the record requirements if someone beat Kipchoge's time, and with technological advancements, we are closer than we have ever been. Here, MailOnline takes a look at some of the unusual technologies and inventions that may one day help an athlete finally reach the finish line in under two hours.

I've been writing marathon-related blog posts for about 2 years now, describing a range of studies on different aspects of marathon running, such as the influence of age, gender, and experience on performance and pacing, and focusing on race-records from a wide range of big-city marathons around the world. To date these studies have focused on analysing marathon data with a view to gaining insights into what has happened in the past; something that is often referred to as descriptive analytics in the world of data science. Recently I have turned my attention to the future, to use this marathon data to gain insights into what might happen in the future -- predictive analytics -- and, in particular to make predictions about the potential of runners to achieve new personal best (PB) finish-times. In fact, what began as a bit of data-fun in my spare-time, has now started to leak into my day-job, and this week I will present a scientific paper based on this prediction work. This is not so unusual. As a Professor in the area of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and recommender systems, a major part of my job involves publishing and presenting research ideas.

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