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This story appears in the July 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. The race for the ages can be run only in our imagination: Usain Bolt vs. Jesse Owens. Bolt is in his 21st-century lane ...

This story appears in the May 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine ... for thinking that this story—the real story of the race for the Arctic—is about Chilingarov.

She finished the race with roughly 500,000 followers ... A version of this story appears in the April 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine.

This month’s National Geographic cover is a time-lapse image by Stephen Wilkes that captures America’s beauty in one of the most hard-to-reach places.