NAIROBI
DJ Chark Jaguars Jersey , Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Anxiety is reaching the boilingpoint as former world marathon record holder Wilson Kipsang andOlympic champion Eliud Kipchoge left for Germany to complete at theBerlin Marathon on Sunday.
The two might be the hottest candidates to attack the 2:02.57world record set by Dennis Kimetto in 2014 and their commitment toattain this goal leaves many imagining by how far they will raisethe bar.
Throw in former Berlin marathon champion Kenenisa Bekele, formerworld marathon record holder Patrick Makau and Luke Kibet, theformer world marathon champion and it doesn't get much better thanthat.
"I can't wait for the race day. I am looking forward to battleagainst Bekele and Kipchoge. I am better placed than anyone else tobreak the world record. I have done it before and believe I am ableto do it again," Kipsang said on Tuesday in Nairobi.
The world record has been broken in the German Capital a recordsix times, four of those by Kenyans athletes - Paul Tergat
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But Kipsang also want to be second time lucky on Sunday as heseeks to improve his personal best time. "The journey has started,"said Kipsang. "We are on our way to Berlin marathon with my wifeand son."
Meanwhile, world marathon champion Geoffrey Kirui has backedKipchoge and Kipsang to "obliterate" the world marathon record inBerlin.
"I have confidence that Kipchoge and Kipsang have what it takesto obliterate the record. This is a race where each athlete mustsacrifice and go for it," he said.
Kirui
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"I won't run any marathon this year. I want to relax after myworld championships feat," said Kirui, who is planning to run theDelhi Half Marathon on Nov.19.
Kirui was to compete at the Chicago marathon in October, butwill now have to sit it out as he recuperates and watch closely howhis body reacts.
Kirui is careful not to pick up fresh injuries having sat outthe last two season with a knee problem. Enditem
By John Kwoba
NAIROBI
Ronnie Harrison Jaguars Jersey , Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- Defending champion Barselius Kipyego and Violah Jepchumba of Kenya will start as the favourites at the Mattoni Labem Half Marathon in the north-central Czech city on Saturday.
Kipyego, who set the race record with his 59:15 personal best last year, is one of four men in the field who have dipped under the one-hour mark for the distance.
The others are Kenyan Kenneth Keter, who clocked 59:48 last year; Lahbabi Aziz of Morocco who ran 59:25 in 2014; and another Kenyan, Solomon Kirwa Yego
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Yego has the best time of the entrants this season at 59:50 from February's Ras Al Khaimah race where he finished fourth.
The 30-year-old impressed at the Paris Marathon two months later where he clocked a 2:07:12 lifetime best to finish fourth.
Kipyego, 24, clocked 1:00:47 in his only half marathon this year, finishing fourth in Prague in April.
Keter ran 1:01:05 in Ras Al Khaimah in February, where he finished eighth and Lahbabi 1:02:17 in Istanbul in April.
Ismail Juma of Tanzania and Kenyans Josphat Kiprop Kiptis and Josphat Kimutai Tanui
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Jepchumba, 26, leads the women's field. The Kenyan is one of history's fastest women over 10km and the half marathon
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Both performances came in the same race, when she finished second to Joyciline Jepkosgei at the Prague Half Marathon on April 1.
She was nearly as fast at last weekend's Birell Prague 10km, where she clocked 30:25 to finish third behind yet another world record run by her former compatriot Jepkosgei.
Others in the hunt include Lucy Cheruiyot, the runner-up last year at 1:08:17 and Yvonne Jelagat, whose current personal best stands at 1:08:19.
Kenyans Stacy Jepkemboi Ndiwa and Lydia Rotich
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Meanwhile, former two-time Olympic 5,000m champion Meseret Defar from Ethiopia will compete in the Philadelphia Half Marathon on Sept. 17.
The Ethiopian will face off against former Boston Marathon winners Caroline Rotich from Kenya and Buzunesh Deba from Ethiopia as well as top American distance runner Jordan Hasay.
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URUMQI, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Consumers may be about to get more options for the color natural wool products as Chinese scientists have used gene editing to alter the coat colors of sheep.
The researchers in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, have bred five sheep with different colors with the technique, known as CRISPR-Cas9.
At the Xinjiang Academy of Zootechnical Science, the sheep are eye-catching: Two of them carry black and white fur like cows, two of them are black with white spots like spotty dogs, while the other is brown and white like unstirred cappuccino.
"The lambs, born in March, have become our lovely pets," said Liu Mingjun, head of the research team.
According to Liu, this is the first time that scientists have altered the coat colors of large animals via CRI.
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