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From black tea and bread to fresh managu cooked with milk: A look at the diet of Kenya's award-winning athletes

Ordinarily, many Kenyans would prefer chai fupi moto (tea with a high quantity of milk) with bread, sweet potatoes and yams for breakfast, but the country's world beaters in athletics are selective in their eating habits. One would take fruit juice.

Their training sessions are gruelingly tough, with long distance athletes running 30km on the roads and thousands of metres during speed works.

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