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Kenya’s Emmanuel Wanyonyi pipped Canadian world champion Marco Arop for Olympic gold in a super fast 800 metres final at the Paris Games. Wanyonyi held on to a slender lead all down the home straight for victory in 1 minute 41.19 seconds for third on the all-time list. Arop trailed by a mere one-hundredths of a second for silver and previous season leader Djamel Sedjati of Algeria took bronze in a race with four runners dipping below 1:42 minutes. The women’s 100m hurdles also saw a dramatic finish when American season leader Masai Russell got gold in 12.33 seconds, one-hundredths ahead of Fre…

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