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Sports Shorts: Ethiopia's Desisa takes NYC Marathon

A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday IMAGE: Ethiopia's Lelisa Desisa poses with his first place medal at the finish line after winning the 2018 TCS New York City Marathon......

Sports shorts: Boston Marathon to feature second-largest field in race history

Some 36,000 athletes, including Kenyan and Ethiopian runners who are consistently ranked among the world's fastest, will run in the 118th Boston Marathon on Monday, putting the world-renown race......

Africans rule but 'Strong Boston' echoes two years after bombing

‘That’s how you have to run here. You have to be gritty and aggressive’ Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopa speaks to the media after winning the 119th Boston Marathon. Photograph: Jim......

Olympic marathon champion Kiprotich wins world title

Uganda's Olympic champion Stephen Kiprotich showed he was no one-hit wonder by breaking Kenya's stranglehold on the men's marathon at the world championships with victory in two hours nine minutes......

PIX: Desisa wins midnight marathon; Hassan bags double

Sifan Hassan first athlete, male or female, to win the two events at a single Olympic Games or World championships. Images from Saturday's proceedings at the World Athletics Championships in Doha.......

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