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No injury concerns for Kenya's Mosop in Paris marathon

Xinhua, January 28, 2015 Adjust font size:

Kenya's Xiamen Marathon champion Moses Mosop has been recovered from a tendon injury which had kept him out of competition for the last two years. He expects to prove his fitness at the Paris Marathon on April 12.

The former Chicago Marathon champion is among the top athletes in Paris and he believes he will weather the storm, win the title and be able to convince Kenyan selectors to pick him for the World Marathon Championships in Beijing in August.

"I have been training hard and I believe I will be able to do well in Paris. I have run twice in Paris over the half marathon distance, winning once and finishing second in 2012 and 2011," Mosop said said Wednesday in Eldoret.

"But I need a race course, which I know and can control well my pace. Paris is one of them and it will not be easy looking at the calibre of opposition," he added.

Mosop, who turns 30 in July, missed the London Olympics with a tendon injury. He returned to fitness late in 2014 and was entered in the Prague Marathon but he was not successful. Endi