Olympics: Paris 2024 dual gold medallist and Australian Flag Bearer Jess Fox has been elected to the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Athletes' Commission.
Two years earlier, Kipchoge floated above the Tokyo streets en route to another legacy-building triumph . Now, those same streets carried the heft of a humbling 2023 for the Kenyan icon.To that point, watching Kipchoge was to have your breath taken away, as his times broke stunning barriers, leaving a mark that transcended the sport and made him a cultural icon.Kipchoge’s personal mantra is ‘no human is limited’.
The most shocking blow, however, was still to come — and it would arrive without him stepping across a start line at all.Born down the road from Kaptagat, 15 years after Kipchoge, was the man who would one day snatch his marathon crown, Kelvin Kiptum. By the time of his first ever marathon major, London in April 2023, the BBC was asking in a profile piece ‘Can Kelvin Kiptum really be Kipchoge 2.0?’.Kiptum proved he was no one-hit wonder by giving Kipchoge’s then world-record a shake with a 2:01:25.
What followed wouldn’t so much prove that Kiptum could match Kipchoge as much as it would signal him as the builder of a bigger and better dynasty. A sub-two-hour marathon in official race conditions — a marker forever thought to be beyond all fathomable human capability — was somehow in reach. Saturday at 4pm in front of the Hotel de Ville was set to be the first, and probably only, time Kipchoge and Kiptum would race-off in the same event.
Outside of motorsport, it’s hard to think of a more sudden tragedy to strike down an athlete within their world-conquering era — though it does echo the loss of US running legend Steve Prefontaine, who also died at 24 in a car accident. Bizarre rumours spread online that Kipchoge was somehow involved in his rival countryman’s premature demise.But that didn’t stop them from making the life of Kipchoge — who lives simply and, largely, reclusively — a living hell.
An athlete who has always believed in the strength in numbers during training suddenly found his friends and souring running partners disappearing one by one.
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