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Kenya's Timothy Cheruiyot (C) leads in the Men's 1500m semi-final at the 2019 IAAF Athletics World Championships at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha on October 4, 2019. [Photo by KARIM JAAFAR / AFP]
World 1,500m champion Timothy Cheruiyot has said he had high hopes of peaking at the right time this season to make a serious attempt on the world record.
"When the year started, I had two items I wanted to accomplish - winning Olympic gold and breaking the world record. At the moment, the Olympic dream is gone, moved to 2021 and the dream chance of running at the higher level at full throttle looks bleak," he said on Sunday.
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