Kipchoge has called on more focus on the track races, his appeal coming as Great Britain’s multiple world and Olympic track champion Mo Farah launches his final pre-season training in Iten, keen on defending his Olympic 5,000m and 10,000m double at the Tokyo Games this summer. Kipchoge, with a PB of 12:46.53, has run 15 sub 13-minute 5,000m races and accounts for eight of the 100 fastest ever times over the distance. With Farah now back on the track, athletics analysts predict a difficult time for Kenya at the Tokyo Olympic Games whose track and field programme runs from July 31 to August 9 at the brand new Olympic Stadium. Farah boasts four Olympic gold medals after his 5,000m/10,000m double at the 2012 and 2016 Games, and his collection also includes six World Championships gold medals over the two distances. “It will be really important because Kenya has been a sporting country and it has been a big contributor to world athletics,” Kipchoge reacted.

Source: Daily Nation January 17, 2020 03:11 UTC