Kenyan runner Lawrence Cherono, a former winner of the Boston and Chicago marathons, has been banned for seven years for doping and trying to use fake documents to explain his failed drug test.
The London Marathon paid tribute to last year’s winner Kelvin Kiptum with a period of applause before the start of the men’s race on Sunday.
On April 19, 1897, the first Boston Marathon was held; winner John J. McDermott ran the course in two hours, 55 minutes and 10 seconds.
Kelvin Kiptum’s father told a Kenyan TV network that his only child had promised — a day before his death — to build him a house and buy him a car through running.
Marathon world record-holder Kelvin Kiptum died in a car crash in Kenya late Sunday. He was 24.