680. Behind the Scenes at London Marathon’s Kipchoge/Bekele Showdown
Endurance Noise & Random Musings
English - September 30, 2020 22:39 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSports Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
And to challenge Kipchoge, Bekele will need to be at his absolute best, because Kipchoge’s consistency is just as impressive as any of his individual performances. Everyone has a bad marathon from time to time. But not Kipchoge. Never Kipchoge. Counting his sub-2 attempts, Eliud Kipchoge has run 14 marathons in his life and every single one of them has been a strong performance as he’s won 13 of them (his only loss came when Wilson Kipsang ran a WR to beat him, Kipsang is now suspended for doping violations) and run 2:05:00 or faster in all of them save for his debut (2:05:30) and his Olympic win (2:08:44).
Here’s the set-up: Last fall in Berlin, Bekele — who has won 21 world titles and broken 6 track world records — ran the marathon we’ve been expecting from him, cruising to a 2:01:41. Bekele’s mark was just two seconds shy of the world record 2:01:39, set a year earlier on the same course by Kipchoge — the Olympic Marathon champion who has won 10 consecutive major marathons. Two weeks later, Kipchoge wowed the world with his exhibition-only, yet still barrier-breaking 1:59:40 run in Vienna.
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