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Why running style will be key when Kipchoge tackles Bekele

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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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