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Britain’s Emile Cairess underlined his enormous potential as he weaved through the London Marathon field in the final stages to move from eighth to third and book his place for the Paris Olympics.
It was performance of soul and substance and it came, as the 26-year-old revealed afterwards, despite his training being deeply affected after his cousin was left in a coma for over a month after a car crash.