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Cheptegei (Second from left) — from U.S. Army on Wikipedia Commons

In the running world, you have to live under a rock not to have heard the name Joshua Cheptegei.

Cheptegei, who hails from Uganda, has broken both the 5,000 meters and the 10,000 meters world records during the pandemic…