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In pursuit of the hero: Photographers chase the Kansas City Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes as he celebrates after winning Super Bowl LVIII.

In pursuit of the hero: Photographers chase Kansas City Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes as he celebrates after winning Super Bowl LVIII.

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Sport hurdles borders, leaps time zones, mocks distance and joins strangers. Taylor Swift, in Las Vegas, and I are 14,200km apart and have nothing in common, not even the calendar – she’s still in February 11, I’ve advanced to February 12 – but we’re hostage to the same clock.

The one which is ticking down to the end of the Super Bowl.

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