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Ethiopia’s Tamirat Tola won the Paris Olympic men’s marathon on Saturday, the biggest success of his career so far, but Eliud Kipchoge’s dream of a third straight Games title ended meekly. Tola, the 2022 world champion, navigated the streets of the city in 2 hours 06.26 minutes ahead of Belgium’s Bashir Abdi and Kenyan Tokyo 2024 marathon winner Benson Kipruto. Spectators packed the route from the city hall, through Versailles and finishing at Les Invalides. The previous Olympic highlight for Tola, 33 on Sunday, was bronze in 2016 in the 10,000 metres. Kipchoge, meanwhile, could be facing reti…

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