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Over 1,000 runners secure their place in Paris 2024’s mass-participation marathon after holding off Kipchoge

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Kenyan athlete Eliud Kipchoge poses for a picture on the podium of the J-1000 Paris 2024 – Marathon Pour Tous (Marathon For All), with runners who won an entry at the Paris Olympics 2024's Mass Marathon on Champs Elysees in Paris, France, October 31, 2021. REUTERS

With 1,000 days to go until the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024, more than 3,600 runners took to the Champs Élysées to race against Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge.

The event gave the public a foretaste of the “Marathon Pour Tous”, Mass Event Running, which will be the first race in the history of the Olympic Games to be open to the general public.

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