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Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya celebrates his win of the 2014 Bank of America Chicago Marathon on October 12, 2014 in Chicago, Illinois. Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images/AFP
Kenya's top runners have urged athletics fans and sports enthusiasts across the world to keep faith in them, despite media allegations of widespread doping in the East African nation famed for its top-class runners.
Britain's Sunday Times newspaper and German broadcaster ARD/WDR said they gained access to the results of more than 12,000 blood tests showing more than 800 athletes had given blood samples that were "highly suggestive" of doping or "abnormal". Of those 800-plus, reports suggest 77 were Kenyan athletes.
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