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Pain for Kenyan athletes as coranavirus bites racing events

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Kenya's Lawrence Cherono, holds the trophy after winning the 2019 Boston Marathon. [Winslow Townson,AP]

“We have suffered as athletes because we have no other sources of income. Race organisers are cancelling races, it is tough for me to train alone since majority of athletes have left our training camp,” says Lawrence Cherono the Boston 2019 Marathon winner.

His words capture and paint the picture of how Kenyan athletes have suffered after the cancellation of major running events due to coronavirus.

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