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Podcast: News Bites
Episode: Taipei Marathon, Oil Spill, Elton John
Description: Hello everybody, and welcome to a new episode of News Bites!
I'm Ryan Drillsma…
And I'm Nancy Sun.
In today's news:
Mask-free running in the Taipei Marathon, an oil spill of the U.S. coast, and a big star postpones a tour.
All that and more, coming up next.
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跑台北馬拉松不用戴口罩
Taipei Marathon Runners to Go Mask Free
Ready, set, go!
That's the sound of the start of the Taipei marathon.
A marathon (馬拉松) is a running event which is 42.195 kilometers long.
Taipei has hosted a marathon every year since 2001.
This year, many runners were worried the marathon might not happen because of the COVID-19 situation in Taiw...