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Wilson Kiprop never imagined he would be Kenya's leading 10,000 metres medal hope at the London Games but on a drizzly Friday night in Oregon, the 2010 African champion timed his late surge to perfection to win his nation's Olympic trial.
Ignoring the controversy in Kenya over the race being contested on USA soil, Kiprop passed former world bronze medallist Moses Masai with 50 metres to go and won in the year's fastest time at the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League meeting.
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