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Why running style will be key when Kipchoge tackles Bekele

Oct. 12, 2019 photo, marathon runner Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya, white vest, wearing Nike AlphaFly prototype running shoe, and his pacemaking team, wearing pink Nike Vaporfly shoes, run during the INEOS 1:59 Challenge attempt to run a sub two-hour marathon in Vienna, Austria

The fastest marathoner, Eliud Kipchoge and the second fastest, Kenenisa Bekele are both managed by the same  manager- Jos Hermens of Global Sports Communications.

The two archrivals flew aboard the same private jet to London for arguably the biggest and most anticipated race of the year- The London Marathon. That is as far as their similarities go.

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