Kampala 2017 Diaries: Stephen Kiprotich is ready!

Stephen Kiprotich is looking forward to put up a presentable performance at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships Kampala 2017 come March 26

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RunBlogRun Opines: The 2012 Olympic marathon champion, Stephen Kiprotich is racing in his own country, Uganda. Uganda has put together a fine team and they look to be in the medal battle. Will Stephen KIprotich rise to the top of the field once again? How will the Ugandan men’s team perform? We have only a few days to wait! The race is less that 52 hours from now!

Kiprotich is ready

KAMPALA (UGA): Former world and Olympic marathon champion Stephen Kiprotich is confident the Ugandan team can surprise the Kenyans at the World Cross Country Championships and believes home advantage should play to their strengths, informs the Daily Nation. “My teammates back at home are really working hard in training and I know it will be a tough competition. [Geoffrey] Kamworor, who is my training mate here, is a tough athlete but I will also work extra hard to make sure we wrestle the title from him. I will be on home ground which is more advantageous to me and I will be happy to compete with Kamworor because we have never met in any race before,” he said.

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Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.

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