Eliud Kipchoge was bidding for a third gold medal but dropped out with back pain.
ETHIOPIAN TAMIRAT TOLA delivered a masterclass in solo front running to win the Olympic men’s marathon in Paris as Eliud Kipchoge ’s bid for a third gold went up in smoke.
More recently he finished third at last year’s London Marathon and won the New York City Marathon in a course record of 2:04.58. Former world record holder Kipchoge won golds in the 2016 Rio Games and in Tokyo in 2021, but the 39-year-old Kenyan pulled up late in the race with back pain. “This is my worst marathon. I have never done a DNF . Like a boxer, I have been knocked down, I have won, I have come second, eighth, 10th, fifth – now I did not finish. That’s life.”
“People have been talking about me and Kipchoge, but you see it was the young generation today. These guys are stronger than us.The 42km-long marathon course headed out of central Paris on a loop to Versailles, mimicking a key moment from the French Revolution: the Women’s March on Versailles, on 5 October 1789 which led to French King Louis XVI finally agreeing to ratify the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens.
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