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Will Faith Kipyegon stop Dutch's Hassan in Oregon?

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August 6, 2021. , Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands, Faith Kipyegon of Kenya, Laura Muir of Britain, Gabriela Debues-Stafford of Canada, and Nozomi Tanaka of Japan. REUTERS

Reigning Olympic 1,500m champion Faith Kipyegon longs to make history at the 18th World Athletics Championships that gets underway at Hayward Field inside University of Oregon, Eugene, in USA tomorrow.

Kipyegon, the only Kenyan woman to have won 1,500m gold at the World Championships, wants to become the first two-time Olympic and two-time world champion.

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