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Kenya's Emmanuel Mutai, left, congratulates Kenya's Geoffrey Mutai after he won the men's division of the New York City Marathon with a course record, with Emmanuel Mutai in second place, on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011, in New York. Geoffrey Mutai finished in an unofficial time of 2 hours, 5 minutes, 6 seconds, crushing the previous mark of 2:07:43 set a decade earlier. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya, who first won the New York Marathon in 2011, will be making his third shot at the crown, after winning in 2013 against a spirited challenge that will include several Kenyans.
The Kenyan athletes were on Tuesday in top form and optimistic about doing well in New York as they jetted out."I have done my training well and as I go, I can confirm that it will be the legs doing the talking. I do not know how the others have prepared, but I will focus on my own race and beating the others," Mutai said in Nairobi on Tuesday.
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