Sports: NYC Marathon

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KENYA BELIEVE IT. Kenya's Geoffrey Kamworor (second left) re-enters Manhattan at mile 21 "The Wall", with the lead pack during the closing stages of Sunday’s NYC marathon. He would go on to win it all in a time of 2:08.13 seconds, give his country a clean sweep of the top awards.  First timer, Joyciline JepKosgei won in 2:22.38 seconds.
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