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London Marathon organizers have spent $230,940, mostly on private planes, to get competitors to the British capital for Sunday's race after plumes of volcanic ash led to unprecedented travel chaos.
The bulk of bill was the $168,967 spent chartering a jet to bring in defending champion Sammy Wanjiru and others from Nairobi, Kenya.
Race director David Bedford says that ``it's been about making sure we maintain the quality of the event rather than bean-counting.''
British airspace reopened on Tuesday night, six days after flight paths were closed by ash spewing from a volcano in Iceland.
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