![]() ![]() ![]() And you need a great team that believes in it and in you, the perfect shoes, and to be stronger than any runner before. “It is not rocket science to break this barrier,” he insisted. Suddenly the pipe dream did not look so potty.Ĭertainly Kipchoge, who ran 2:00.25 in Monza last year as part of the Nike Breaking2 project – although it did not count under official rules as pacers were subbed in and out of the race – thinks it is possible. His time, after all, was just 100sec from the holy grail of distance running: the sub-two-hour marathon. He flew to a new world best."Īs Kipchoge soared across the line in 2hr 01min 39sec, even sober minds began to entertain the fantastical. The paper insisted: "The 33-year-old did not run. No wonder, given that he had just “pulverised” – as Marca put it – the marathon world record by 78 seconds.Īccording to Die Welt, the Kenyan had also performed another feat of wizardry by contradicting the late Czech runner Emil Zatopek, in 1954 the first man to break the 29-minute barrier in the 10,000m and a visionary who famously said that "fish float, birds fly, and humans run". When Eliud Kipchoge woke to a dazzling Monday morning in Berlin he was greeted with global headlines lauding him as a “long-distance Usain Bolt” and “the fastest man in the world”. ![]()
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