Chicago's streets belong to East Africa's distance champions again

Kenya's Amos Kipruto won the men's Chicago Marathon and Ethiopia's Hawi Feysa held her women's title in 2:13:33, the latest chapter in East Africa's extraordinary distance-running story. Behind the stopwatch are high-altitude training towns, deep local competition and generations of runners who turned a humble sport — just shoes and a road — into a path to the world stage.