Kenenisa Bekele, three-time Olympic champion in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters, will participate in the New York Marathon for the first time on Sunday and would like to win there for “go down in history“What a sport.”New York is a big marathon race, so getting a good result would be perfect for me“said the 39-year-old runner at a press conference.
“It is difficult to say whether I will be able to break the record for this marathon or not. It’s my first time here and I don’t know how difficult the course is, and there are no hares, which also makes things complicated“, added the legend of the distance and the middle distance, also five times world champion (four times on 10,000m, once on 5,000m) and eleven times world champion of cross country. Six weeks ago, Kenenisa Bekele had failed to win the Berlin Marathon, finishing 3rd in the race, while he was aiming for neither more nor less than the world record of Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge (2h01’39 ”). from the German capital, he had failed to beat him for… two seconds.
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The Ethiopian, who explained his recent failure to the fact that he had “slept badly the night before“, assured to feel in good shape in New York where the record of the course (2h05’5”) was established by the Kenyan Geoffrey Mutai in 2011. There will be beautiful people in the “Big Apple” Sunday since the Kenyan Peres Jepchirchir, crowned Olympic champion in Tokyo this summer, will be present. She will naturally be the favorite among the ladies, but above all wants to be cautious.”I prefer not to say anything now, I know the course is not easy, but I will do my best“.
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