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Kenya's Timothy Cheruiyot longs to pick maiden Olympic ticket

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Kenya's Timothy Cheruiyot holds the national flag after winning the Men's 10,000m final at the 2019 IAAF Athletics World Championships at the Khalifa International stadium in Doha on October 6, 2019. [Photo by ANDREJ ISAKOVIC / AFP]

World 1500m champion Timothy Cheruiyot longs to go one better at the Olympic Games that run in Tokyo, Japan, from July 23 to August 8.

In the absence of former world 1500m champions in Asbel Kiprop and Elijah Manangoi, who are both serving doping bans, Cheruiyot has saved Kenya blushes in major competitions. 

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