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4 months, 4 weeks ago

Olympics marathon results and times: Sifan Hassan beats Tigst Assefa in dramatic women’s race

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

Ethiopian runner Tamirat Tola wins men’s marathon at Paris Olympics to end Kenya dominance

Associated Press

PARIS — Ethiopian runner Tamirat Tola won the men’s marathon at the Paris Olympics on Saturday to end Kenya’s dominance of the race. Tola finished in an Olympic record time of 2 hours, 6 minutes and 26 seconds, with Belgium’s Bashir Abdi finishing 21 seconds behind and Benson Kipruto taking bronze for Kenya, 34 seconds back. I am very proud, …

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5 months ago

How Rob De Castella changed the face of the marathon and bounced back from his Los Angeles Olympics disappointment

ABC

"The marathon starts at 30km — the first 30 is your warm up." "To find out," Moore wrote, invoking the third person, "the visitor must first break through de Castella's reluctance to be questioned." "It's harder if everyone thinks you're going to win," de Castella said. Previewing the men's marathon, The New York Times wrote of de Castella: "Undefeated in …

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1 year ago

With Paris Olympics in sight, elite runners start favourites in Kolkata marathon

The Hindu

While aiming to win Sunday’s Tata Steel Kolkata 25K race, leading international runners, including Ethiopian Yalemzerf Yehualaw and Kenya’s Betty Chepkemoi Kibet, expressed their desire to do well in the 2024 Paris Olympics. My main target will be to do well at the Paris Olympics and it will be a great achievement,” said Yehualaw, who is second on the world …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Phil Sesemann interview: Briton excited to harness London Marathon 2021 breakthrough on road to Paris Olympics

The Independent

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4 years, 1 month ago

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Test events to resume in March, decision on attendance in spring

Firstpost

Fans and foreign athletes will be allowed at some of the test events, which will also be used to assess anti-coronavirus measures and contingency plans. Tokyo: Tokyo Olympics test events will resume in March and a decision on fan attendance will come in the spring, an official said on Friday, as preparations continued for the postponed Games despite ongoing coronavirus …

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4 years, 4 months ago

London Marathon: Mo Farah to run as pacemaker to help compatriots eyeing Tokyo Olympics 2020 cut

Firstpost

Farah last year gave up plans of running the marathon at the Tokyo Olympics and will instead compete in the 10,000 metres which, if successful, will be his fifth gold medal at the Games. London: British athletics legend Mo Farah has agreed to be one of the pacemakers for this year’s London Marathon with his aim to help fellow Britons …

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4 years, 9 months ago

Kipchoge taking crisis in his stride

China Daily

Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge, the marathon world record holder, celebrates as he successfully completes his attempt to run a marathon in under two hours in Vienna, Austria, Oct 12, 2019. Marathon great vows to be ready for Olympics despite virus disruption NAIROBI－Eliud Kipchoge, the world's greatest marathon man, reckoned his first reaction was shock when he heard that the 2020 Olympic …

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4 years, 11 months ago

Kipchoge headlines Kenyan team for Olympic marathon

The Hindu

Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge, the first to break the mythic two-hour mark, and Vivian Cheruiyot will lead the Kenyan marathon team for the Tokyo Olympics in August. “In the last Olympic Games in Rio our female athlete who won the women's marathon gold medal was a shame for us,” said Tuwei, in reference to Jemima Sumgong who tested positive …

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5 years ago

Chinese marathoner Duobujie targets top 8 at Tokyo Olympics