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Run without fear in London

The champion Wilson Kipsang said athletes should not be nervous running in this Sunday’s London Marathon, just six days after bombs along the course of the Boston Marathon killed three people.

The Kenyan, who is among the favourites to beat a field of 36,000 around the capital on Sunday in front of hundreds of thousands of spectators, said: “When you are running and you are thinking something like that can happen, you can’t concentrate. We should have no fear during the race because security matters will be put in place and we will run feeling free.”

While none of the elite field who competed in Boston are due to take part in London, two-thirds of the elite wheelchair field will race in both events.

Marathon organisers announced that runners would observe a 30-second silence before each of the three starts. Participants will be encouraged a wear a black ribbon given to them when they pick up their race number.

Read more at http://www.athleticsweekly.com/news/run-without-fear-in-london-says-kipsang/#smuCOdZcSOKSCp1F.99 and http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/apr/16/london-marathon-tributes-boston-bombing