Defending champion Geoffrey Mutai and Priscah Jeptoo won the men’s and women’s races at the New York City Marathon yesterday for a Kenyan sweep in chilly, windy conditions through the city’s five boroughs.

London Marathon chief executive Nick Bitel is confident Sunday’s race will be safe and live up to its reputation as an event at which “humanity can be united”.

DISMISS him at your peril was the clear message from Ireland’s Alastair Cragg as he put the pieces back together after dropping out of the record breaking Boston Marathon with a badly blistered left foot.

WHEN Eddie Hogan emigrated to New York in 1985, he was leaving behind a different kind of famine.