NAIROBI (AP) -- Boston Marathon champion Elijah Lagat is back on Kenya's team for the Sydney Olympics.

 Lagat replaces Ondoro Osoro who was shot in the neck on July 23 by carjackers, a day after he had qualified for the team.

 Lagat had told reporters Sunday he would not accept a place on the team until his colleagues Moses Tanui and Japheth Kosgei, were also reinstated.

 The Kenyan Amateur Athletic Association removed Lagat, Kosgei and Tanui from the original team and replaced them with Osoro, Eric Wainaina and Rotterdam Marathon champion Kenneth Cheruiyot, saying the three had not been training seriously for the Sydney Games.

 "I wish to make it clear that Lagat has accepted to rejoin the Kenya team without any conditions," association secretary-general David Okeyo said.

 Lagat was unavailable to confirm the report.

 On Sunday he called a claim made Friday by Okeyo that he was back on the team "strange."

 "How do they know that now I've been training and at first when they dropped me they said I was not training?" said Lagat, 34, who started running eight years ago to shed excess weight, not to run for Kenya.

 "I was weighing 72 kilograms (158 pounds) then, but by the time I won the Boston Marathon, I was weighing 57 kilograms (125 pounds)," he said.