If you were the head of a national Olympic team, you’d be glad to have Isaiah Kiplagat’s problem: picking who to send to the Beijing Olympics from a pool of world champion marathoners. Here’s his take on the matter according to Xinhua: “Kenyan athletes won a total of 50 marathon races last year and so [...]
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Kenya’s Distance Runners
Some of them are training in London to escape the violence at home.
Missing in Beijing: UK’s Mark Lewis-Francis
From the BBC:Mark Lewis-Francis is almost certain to miss out on the 2008 Beijing Olympics after suffering an Achilles injury. The 25-year-old sprinter partially tore his tendon training in Cyprus and now needs an operation to limit the damage. Read the rest here.
Photo of the Day: Mongolia’s Serod Batochir
Mongolia’s Serod Batochir bagged the marathon gold medal in the Good Luck Beijing 2008 preparatory games for the main show in August. Will Serod repeat as a gold medalist in the Olympic Games? Unlikely. His run which clocked two hours, 30 minutes and 42 seconds is just too far away from those recorded by Athens [...]
Runner to Watch: Kenya’s Janeth Jepkosgei
Janeth Jepkosgei won the 800 meters during the World Championships in Osaka, Japan last year. If she wins a gold medal in Beijing, she will be the first woman from Kenya to bag an Olympic Gold. Will she beat her opponents, the heightened expectations of her people, and the pressure that comes with being the [...]
