A hero's welcome greeted paraplegic athlete William Tan as he made a dash for the finish line, cheered on by thousands of North Koreans in the Kim Il Sung Stadium.
The 61-year-old Singaporean became the first person to finish the Pyongyang Marathon in a wheelchair earlier this month.
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