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Kipchoge, Bekele fight to stay fit as London Marathon remains in limbo

Eliud Kipchoge, Kenenisa Bekele [Photo: Courtesy]

Eliud Kipchoge and Kenenisa Bekele should have spent this week finalising their preparations for the London Marathon but the two best distance runners in history are instead out alone on the trails of East Africa not knowing when they will race again.

Sunday's planned showdown between the only two men to have gone under two hours, two minutes for the classic distance was an early victim of the coronavirus pandemic.

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