The world-record holder will return to the LaSalle Bank ChicagoMarathon.
Khalid Khannouchi, thwarted in his bid to run for the UnitedStates in the Olympics, will instead try to improve on last year's2:05:42 finish that slashed 23 seconds off the previous best marathonhere last year.
Khannouchi entered Tuesday to the delight of race director CareyPinkowski.
"He's extremely valuable to us," said Pinkowski, "and-on apersonal level-we let him know that. Then it was up to me to createfinancial opportunities for him to come back. Was he my No. 1priority? Absolutely."
Khannouchi, 28, ran as a citizen of Morocco when he won here inhis marathon debut in 1997. …
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