Especially if picking the marathon team for the World Championships or Olympic Games is one of your deliverables. Well, Edna Kiplagat has turned the selectors’ headache into a migraine with her latest triumph at the Boston Marathon as she now wants a place in Kenya’s team to the IAAF World Championships. It would be difficult to turn down an athlete who has won two World Championships gold medals a few big city races and is eager to complete a hat-trick of victories at the World Championships when London hosts this year’s edition in August. Cheruiyot told journalists in London on Thursday that she isn’t targeting a specific time on her London Marathon debut. She is in good company in London, that of seasoned marathoners Mary Keitany and Florence Kiplagat.

Source: Daily Nation April 20, 2017 18:33 UTC