For Kipchoge, those moments of (relative) failure almost never come, which is why the Boston sixth place finish creates waves. It is hard to remember, especially when it comes to someone like Kipchoge, that all athletes are bound to have a bit of an off day at some point in their career, that every runner in the history of the sport has had races where they could not do their best. In sports, you win and you lose and there is always tomorrow to set a new challenge. I want to congratulate my competitors and thank everyone in Boston and from home for the incredible support I am so humbled to receive. I pushed myself as hard as I could but sometimes, we must accept that today wasn’t the day to push the barrier to a greater height.
The speculations were fuelled by his absence at the press conference post the Boston Marathon on 17 April, though Kipchoge released a statement via his social media soon after: “I live for the moments where I get to challenge the limits. Which brings us to the question-what went wrong for him in Boston? Is it a sign for him to hang up his boots? Will he fall short of his self-set goal of winning all six marathon majors-Boston, where he made his debut in this race New York, where he is yet to run to add to the four he was won already: Chicago, Berlin, Tokyo and London? What status of his desire to win a third Olympic gold in Paris next year?
Kipchoge has two Olympic gold medals and has won 17 of the 20 marathons he has run in his career.Īny way you look at it, Kipchoge is super-human. That was in 2019, in a race that was designed to aid Kipchoge in running as fast as possible.
He has, of course, pulled off the greatest unofficial timing ever, when he ran a marathon under the 2-hour mark, a time once described as beyond human capability.
That’s 30 seconds shaved off his previous record, which itself had broken the earlier record by a barely-believable minute and 18 seconds. He may be 38 years old, pushing the age limit for an elite athlete, but it was only last year in Berlin that he broke his own world record yet again, setting the bar at 2 hours 1 minute and 9 seconds. Kipchoge is the undisputed emperor of the distance-running world. Eliud Kipchoge is the greatest marathon runner of all time-there is so little doubt about that imperious statement that the Kenyan great finishing sixth at a major marathon becomes bigger news than the Kenyan, Evans Chebet, who managed to win one of the trickiest races in the world twice in a row.
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