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It is a battle of titans in Valencia meet tomorrow

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Kenneth Kipkemoi, left, and Lawrence Cherono, centre, both of Kenya, and Lelisa Desisa, of Ethiopia, run the course during he 123rd Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15, 2019, in Boston. [AP Photo/Steven Senne]

The stage for the second gruelling clash this year, after London Marathon in October, has been set as top guns line up at the Valencia Marathon tomorrow. 

From two-time world marathon champion Abel Kirui to Boston and Chicago marathon champion Lawrence Cherono and Amos Kipruto — the man who came second behind world record holder Eliud Kipchoge in Berlin in 2018 — top-form Kenyan men are going to Spain for, perhaps, another history-making event.

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