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Article: RUNNING PAST SHADOW OF DESPAIR - Kenyan violence haunted and united champion Cheruiyot, countrymen
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 22, 2008
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112th BOSTON MARATHON
The symbolism was more significant this year than ever. Robert
Cheruiyot wearing the laurel wreath, holding the silver victor's
trophy, listening to his national anthem in Copley Square.
After Kenya's winter of discontent, disruption, and death, it was
important that one of its own runners win the world's most renowned
marathon yesterday afternoon, if only to show that one tradition is
immutable.
"We are still here," proclaimed the 29-year-old runner from the
hilly Nandi District near Uganda, after he'd left behind a pair of
panting Moroccans to win his third straight Boston Marathon in a
brisk 2 hours 7 minutes 46 seconds to become the first man since
Bill Rodgers to ...