The Dubai marathon goes Sunday and the fields are stacked with Ethiopians

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When the Dubai Marathon made its debut at the turn of the 21st century, the city was still only a few square kilometres around the original centuries-old Arabian trading settlement of Dubai Creek. And the first marathon had fewer than 200 participants, though there were several hundred attracted to the half-marathon. Over the quarter century […]

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