The wait is over. Less than a month until the start of the most important sporting event in athletics. From July 26 to August 11, Paris will shake with a new edition of Olympic Games, number 33, which will bring together the best exponents of world sport. If you’re a running lover, here we leave you with 5 athletes you really need to follow at the Paris Games.
Noah Lyles
Noah Lyles He is the sprinter of the moment. Charismatic, talented and with a very high media profile, he won the Olympic trials in the United States 100m and 200m and arrived in Paris as top favorite over the same distance. The 26-year-old athlete, triple world champion in Budapest, declared that it is not enough for him to get only one gold medal in Paris, he wants to win at least three. You can do it? Before him was the new revelation of Jamaica, Kishane Thompsoncoming off running the 100m in 9.77 seconds, the best mark of the year.
Eliud Kipchoge
He marathon king He travels to Paris with one goal: to become the first athlete to win three Olympic golds in the 42K. The experienced Kenyan athlete, who has already won gold medals at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, will star in an unprecedented duel with another athletic legend: the Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele. Both of these Games arrived in the twilight of their careers, aged 39 and 42 respectively, but they continued to compete at a superlative level. They will be joined by a long list of outstanding runners such as Sisay Lemma, Benson Kipruto and many others.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen
Jakob Ingebrigtsen He is the great middle distance figure in the world and wants to validate that title again with an outstanding performance at the Paris Olympic Games. The young Norwegian, 23 years old, will defend his crown in 1,500m against great athletes like the American Yared Nuguse, the Kenyan Abel Kipsang and the Scottish Josh Kerr, where he maintained a strong rivalry since he took the gold from him at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest. Although not confirmed, it is likely that he will also compete in the 5,000m distance.
Sifan Hassan
He is probably the most versatile runner in the world. Sifan Hassan He can run both on the track and on the asphalt, at long or medium distances, and he does it well in all of them. So he has a minimum to compete in up to four events at the Paris Games: 1,500m, 5,000m, 10,000m and marathon. The Ethiopian-born but Dutch-born athlete still has to choose which of these four distances he will compete in, but in any of them he will be an undisputed candidate for gold.
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone
The American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone is the great dominator of distance 400m in all its modalities: smooth, with obstacles and relays. At just 24, she already has two Olympic and four world gold medals and now heads to the Paris Games to add to her list of achievements. In her country’s qualifying event, held on June 30, she broke the world record for the 400m hurdles with a mark of 50.65 seconds. Will you have any other surprises in store for Paris?
The Olympic program with dates and times of the Paris Games can be consulted at this link.
Source: La Verdad
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