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Wanyonyi, Moraa chase glory in Stockholm

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Canada's Marco Arop and Kenya's Emmanuel Wanyonyi cross the finish line in the men's 800m final of the athletics event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. [AFP]

Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi's fiercest challenger has been Marco Arop of Canada, but Algerian Djamel Sedjati has been a major threat to the duo's legacy in the men's 800m.

Sedjati, an Olympic bronze medallist from the 2024 Paris Games, has been consistent in his campaign to upset the pecking order and has occasionally defeated Wanyonyi and World Champion, Arop.

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