LONDON (AP) a' Any anxiety athletes have about competing in the London Marathon after the Boston bombings will be allayed by the successful security measures eventually year's Olympics. The elite runners have arrived in London for Sunday's race and seen assurances from the British government that protection has been moved up after two explosions close to the finish type of Monday's Boston Marathon killed three people and wounded over 170. "The safety that they have in my opinion is the greatest one a' as we saw this past year in London (at the Olympics )," world winner Edna Kiplagat said Thursday. "I understand what we saw in Boston has given London the need to be prepared and I believe they're now prepared for whatever can happen "I hope that they have established the security to be (large) and we assume it to be in the warmup region, the class and at the finish-start line, and even everywhere in the town. It is better that there's maximum security." Organizers have been holding regular meetings with the authorities since the Boston attack, and additional police will undoubtedly be visible along the 26.2-mile course. "We are reassured that, consequently of the knowledge we've got, not just through the workshop but also through the Olympics, that we've the right people set up to be sure this event is the great success that it is," Culture Secretary Maria Miller told the House of Commons. Olympic winner Tiki Gelana said it's difficult to place Boston out of mind. "As a person you feel sorry for the people affected because of what happened. You think about it now and then," she said. "But I am here to run, I'm an athlete. "You arrive at London and London is really a big convention to gain. Even with what happened in Boston, you come here to win."
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