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The decision to exclude all but elite runners from this year’s London Marathon means a gang of veteran participants will miss the chance to complete their 40th race.

Known as the Ever Present, the group have competed every single year since the world famous event’s inaugural year in 1981.

We will just have to go with the flow but after 39 years this was all I needed, this was going to be my last one.

US president Donald Trump has intensified his attacks on China for its handling of the coronavirus outbreak, as his health secretary headed to Taiwan for a visit sure to irk Beijing.

Trump, whose public approval ratings have fallen amid continued Covid-19 infection rates and economic woes, sought to shift the focus to Beijing, claiming again, without evidence, that it may have intentionally let the virus spread globally.

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