Photo | AFP Marathon athletes Haile Gebrselassie (left) from Ethiopia and Patrick Makau from Kenya pose during a press conference in Berlin on Friday. Both are favourites to win the 38th Berlin Marathon which takes place today from 10.30am Kenyan time.

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Posted 30/9/2011

Kenya a bestseller in the most storied race: the marathon

From the time G. Grigorou won the first marathon, the Greek Marathon Trials on February 15, 1896, in a time of 3 hours and 45 minutes, man has...