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Of course not. I was just comparing TG's effort with the american. Not so many normal riders could have done what Steve did yesterday.
Just so long as Steve keeps going and breaks Tommy's record he cannot fail. The record is for 365 days and however many easy miles Tarzan locks up, he doesn't have a time machine so Steve will get there first and hold the record, it wont matter if it gets broken a week later he will still have held it, and I might say won it fairly in a comparable manner to the original record.