Geoffrey Mutai to race in London, Bekele drops out

Geoffrey Mutai, Emmanuel Mutai
NEW YORK MARATHON 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 and Ethiopia’s Aselefech Mergia have been added to the men’s and women’s elite fields for the London Marathon on April 26.

But Ethiopia’s multiple Olympic and World track champion, Kenenisa Bekele, who broke the Paris Marathon course record on his debut in the distance last April, has been forced to withdraw with a right Achilles tendon injury sustained during the Dubai Marathon in January.