Tamirat Tola completes the tough Paris course in an Olympic record time of two hours, six minutes and 26 seconds. Ethiopia’s Tamirat Tola has delivered a masterclass in solo front running to win the Olympic men’s marathon in Paris as Kenyan legend Eliud Kipchoge, who had been bidding for an unprecedented third consecutive Olympic crown, has failed to finish. Tola …
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More than 17 years separate reigning Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge’s first Olympics medal—a bronze in 5,000m at Athens 2004—and the latest one, a gold, at Tokyo 2020 last week. “Typically, training regularly, keeping a clear goal in mind and focusing on that goal single-mindedly is the starting point to perform well time after time,” says Praful Uchil, running coach …
In this interview with Firstpost, marathon running legend Eliud Kipchoge talks about the shoe controversy, running at the London Marathon this year, and running an actual marathon under the two-hour mark. It’s been almost a year since Eliud Kipchoge became the first man to run a marathon distance under the two-hour mark, albeit in an unofficial event at Vienna’s Prater …
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