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Article: Former world champion tips Kenyan runners
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 20, 2008
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Former world champion tips Kenyan runners
NAIROBI, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's former world 5,000 meters
champion Benjamin Limo has predicted a tough race on Wednesday when
Kenyans will be out to stop Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele from going for
a double.
Former world champion and Athens bronze medallist Eliud Kipchoge,
upstarts Edwin Soi and Thomas Longosiwa will compete in the 5,000m
race at the Beijing Olympic Games to ensure that Bekeledoes not
snatch them a gold medal later in the week.
"I am confident Soi and Kipchoge are capable of bringing back
men's 5000m medals," Limo told a local daily, the Standard.
Longosiwa has been drawn in the most difficult of the heats and
with the first ...