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Cheruiyot, Grigoryeva lead the charge – Boston Marathon preview, iaaf.org

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ryanwestman   Apr 19th 2008, 11:56pm
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Boston, USA - Things got a whole lot easier this week for Robert Cheruiyot in his quest to be the first man to win the Boston Marathon four times since Bill Rodgers did it in 1980.

Monday’s BAA Boston Marathon is an IAAF Gold Label Road Race.

On Thursday, Patrick Ivuti, Cheruiyot’s main rival, pulled out of the race after suffering from a severe bout of malaria. Ivuti was the man who stopped Cheruiyot’s three-Marathon win streak back in October at the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon, and his departure from the field means that Cheruiyot can exhale, and get back down to business.

“Robert was really scared of Ivuti,” said Cheruiyot’s agent Federico Rosa. “I think now he is more relaxed.”

Ivuti’s departure also means that the Boston men’s field on Monday will in many ways mirror the U.S. women’s Marathon trials on Sunday. Sunday, it is Deena Kastor and everyone else. Monday, it will be Robert Cheruiyot and everyone else.

Cheruiyot, the reigning World Marathon Majors champ, is looking to join Rodgers and Gerard Cote as a four-time winner and in the process pull away from fellow countryman Cosmas N’Deti - who won the race three times in the mid-1990s - in the Boston record books. Clarence De Mar has the most wins in Boston: seven.

“Robert is such a great champion,” Rodgers said. “He, Lel and Gebreslassie are the best three Marathon runners in the world. Today it is harder and harder to keep winning, but he’s dead serious when it comes to racing.”



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