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Kenya’s Margaret Akidor leads the field in the women’s 5,000m at the Diamond League Golden Gala Pietro Mennea at Olympic Stadium in Rome last year. She is racing in London today. [AFP]
The men’s 800m is touted as the major highlight in the London Diamond League when a super-fast field converges at today, in a race for glory.
Fewer Kenyans might not be part of the deepest world class fields in London since a big number of distance athletes are preparing for the Commonwealth Games which kick off Glasgow, Scotland on this Thursday.
Olympic and world champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi highlights the men’s two-lap contest, with expectation high after he sensationally smashed a 27-year-old 1,000m record in Monaco last weekend.
