This video demonstrates that it is still possible to win the Koopa Freerunning race in the Wooded Kingdom by going the long way around in Super Mario Odyssey.
One of the turtle is cheating, it is doing a long jump besides the wall maze to avoid it and it's extremely faster (and harder) so I can't win even with this technique... And my best time is 43 seconds... I'm so so sad... I will never succeed. I think the other turtle is myself when I did the first race (so I hava to beat it). By the way, I didn't the long jump.... Anyway, it's impossible and the turtle is cheating once again.