Kenyan-born double world steeplechase champion Saif Saaeed Shaheen has said he will not run in next weekend's World Cross Country Championships in Mombasa. Shaheen said he was fit, but surprised by media reports that he had been entered for the 12km race on March 24. "Nobody informed me I was supposed to run," he told reporters.

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