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Rita Jeptoo celebrates after winning of the 2014 Bank of America Chicago Marathon on October 12, 2014 in Chicago, Illinois. [PHOTO:AP]
Just a day ahead of today’s TSC New York City Marathon, Rita Jeptoo’s positive sample A dope tests dominated the world press.
In Eldoret town, the athletics nerve centre, Jeptoo’s doping story was the talk of the town even as the world’s leading newspapers focused much on it rather than the 42km run in the Big Apple set for this evening.
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