Athletics - NN Mission Marathon - Twente Airport, Enschede, Netherlands - April 18, 2021 Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge celebrates winning the men's race Pool via REUTERS/Piroschka Van De Wouw
(Reuters) -Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge, the Olympic marathon champion and world record holder, sent a warning to his rivals ahead of this year's Tokyo Olympics by cruising to victory in the NN Mission Marathon in Enschede, the Netherlands on Sunday.
In his first outing since a shock defeat at October's London marathon, where he came eighth, Kipchoge finished the marathon at Twente Airport with a time of two hours four minutes and 30 seconds to reaffirm his status as hot favourite for the Olympic race in Sapporo in August.
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