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Kenenisa Bekele in yet another attempt to dislodge Eliud Kipchoge from top spot

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Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge celebrates after winning gold medal in men's marathon at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, yesterday morning. [AP]

A number of Kenyan marathoners will tomorrow be lining up for the Berlin Marathon which will be run in the traditional course where 11 world records have been shattered previously.

Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele will for the second time, attempt to break Eliud Kipchoge’s 2:01:39 marathon world record after missing the mark by only two seconds in 2019.

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