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They're off! at the Boston Marathon

9:47 AM Mon, Apr 20, 2009 |
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BOSTON (AP) -- The wheelchair racers are off at the Boston Marathon, leaving Hopkinton for the 26.2-mile trip to Copley Square.


Ernst Van Dyk is trying to win the men's wheelchair race a record eight times and match Jean Driscoll's women's record. Clarence De Mar won the main race seven times in the 1920s.


A field of 25,000 was scheduled to leave the start at 10 a.m. Defending champions Robert Cheruiyot of Kenya and Dire Tune of Ethiopia are trying to repeat as champions.

Americans Ryan Hall and Kara Goucher could give the United States its first victory in the race in decades.

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