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Estonia's Olympic triplets

Leila, Liina and Lily Luik will make Olympics history as the first identical triplets to compete against each other when they cross the start line for the women's marathon in Rio.<br>

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Estonia's Olympic triplets

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  1. Estonia's Olympic triplets

  2. The fair, blued-looked at sisters from the southern Estonian college town of Tartu, now 30 years of age, just took up genuine separation running when they were 24. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins

  3. "We have been dynamic since adolescence, we cherish moving, we want to be dynamic and this pushed us to proficient games," Lily (R) said. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins

  4. Liina (C), who got the sisters to begin running, said that long-separate running engaged them more than the exceptionally specialized nature of sprinting. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins

  5. After two or three years, they understood they were adequate to join in global rivalries. They chose to strive for the Olympics, embracing the trademark "Trio to Rio" to offer shape to their trusts of every one of the three contending in the Olympics. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins

  6. "We saw ... following one year we had great results in Estonia and we thought we could accomplish something great likewise outside of Estonia and to do some huge rivalries like European Championships and the Olympic amusements," Lily (C) said. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins

  7. In rivalry, the sisters say they bolster each other sincerely and even in race strategies, for example, taking it in swings to go about as jackets. The sisters live independently in Estonia and in some cases need to prepare separated. Be that as it may, they consistently spend winters together at a high-elevation preparing camp in Kenya, and they seem to appreciate each other's conversation, visiting without end while running. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins

  8. "It is exhausting to prepare alone," said Leila (L). REUTERS/Ints Kalnins

  9. Estonia's olympic group female marathon runners triplets (L-R) Lily, Liina and Leila Luik keep running amid an instructional course in Tartu. The ladies will make Olympics history when they cross the begin line for the ladies' marathon in Rio. Twins contending in the same occasion is not extraordinary at the Olympic level. Yet, the Luiks are accepted to be the main indistinguishable triplets to contend with each other. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins

  10. The sisters are not supported to wind up on the platform at Rio. Kenyan whiz Tiki Gelana set the Olympic record of 2 hours, 23 minutes and 7 seconds in London in 2012. By complexity, Leila (L), the most established of the triplets, has the speediest individual best at 2:37.12, set in Shanghai in 2013. She is trailed by Liina (R), whose individual best is 2 minutes and 30 seconds slower and Lily, the most youthful, who is a further 45 seconds back.

  11. All three said their objective for the Rio recreations was to complete together, to set individual bests and to complete with a grin. Inquired as to whether they anticipated that would bring home an Olympic award, every one of the three ringed in. "It would be extraordinary ... it resembles our fantasy, and we realize that we need to live in actuality. It is difficult to contend with the Kenyan runners. We are not at the same sort of level as they are currently, however in a few years we can do that.

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