Kipchoge, a debut before good nightmares

There are only 84 days left for one of the runners’ most anticipated and desired appointments, the boston marathon. The race brings together thousands of sports enthusiasts, families and friends, but this year it has a special guest, Eliud Kipchoge.

On December 2, the Kenyan athlete announced his participation in an emotional video that delighted many. “Boston, it’s time,” it said Kipchoge. With those words it was intuited that the athlete would fight for six ‘majors’, only Boston and New York were missing from his incredible record, but no one said it would be easy to achieve what the athlete has never done.

kipchoge He won twelve ‘majors, the Olympic marathons have the same category, but no one won all six: Tokyo, London, Chicago, Boston, London and New York. On April 17, the path to that exciting record opens, but Boston He didn’t want to make it easy.

The Marathon He called 15 athletes running, nothing more and nothing less, under 2 hours and 7 minutes. Among them is the reigning champion at Boston, Evans Chebetthe two-time winner, lesisa desisaor the winner in 2021, Benson Kipruto.

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Chebet won in a time of 2h06:51 but at Valencia nailed 2:03, same mark as Gabriel Geay in turia this past December. In addition, Ethiopian also joined that list I’m sorryone of the few athletes who can say he’s a loser kipchogeit is in the marathon of London 2020.

The list is completed by men like Herpes Negasa (2h04:40), Daniel do Nascimento (2h04:51), John Korir (2h05:01), Nobert Kigen (2h05:13), Ghirmay Ghebreslassie (2h05:34) o Andualem Belay (2h05:45).