![]() That earned him the top prize of $150,000. ![]() Either way he was a shadow of himself, fellow Kenyan and defending champion Evans Chebet taking the win in 2:05.54, becoming the first repeat men’s champion in Boston since another Kenyan, Robert Cheruiyot, in 2008. The 38-year-old from Kenya, who came to Boston with a record of 17 marathons run, and only two lost, may or may not have been put off by the damp wet conditions. Eliud Kipchoge reached that point about seven miles from the finish of Monday’s 127th running of the Boston Marathon, the two-time Olympic champion and world record holder distanced from the lead group and then promptly broken. There comes a point in every great sporting career when the story is no longer about the winning, only the losing.
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