{"id":17540,"date":"2024-05-18T07:41:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T07:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/paris-2024-are-kenenisa-bekele-eliud-kipchoge-set-for-final-showdown\/"},"modified":"2024-05-18T07:41:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T07:41:58","slug":"paris-2024-are-kenenisa-bekele-eliud-kipchoge-set-for-final-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/paris-2024-are-kenenisa-bekele-eliud-kipchoge-set-for-final-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris 2024: Are Kenenisa Bekele &#038; Eliud Kipchoge set for final showdown?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">One of the great athletics rivalries of all time will be renewed at Paris 2024 after Kenenisa Bekele was named in Ethiopia&#8217;s marathon squad.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 41-year-old is a three-time Olympic champion over 5,000m and 10,000m but has not appeared at the Games since London 2012, when he finished fourth over the longer distance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, his second-placed finish in the London Marathon last month means Bekele will come up against Kenyan great Eliud Kipchoge on 10 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former marathon world record holder Kipchoge, 39, is aiming to become the first person <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/africa\/68797836\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">to win three successive Olympic marathons<\/a> after his victories at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His rivalry with Bekele stretches all the way back to their first meeting in a final, also in Paris, at the 2003 World Championships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On that occasion Kipchoge took gold in the 5,000m, with Morocco&#8217;s Hicham El Guerrouj in second place and Bekele taking bronze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A year later at the Olympics in Athens, Kipchoge would have to settle for bronze over the same distance as Bekele took silver behind El Guerrouj, with the Ethiopian then clinching gold over 10,000m gold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Four years on at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Bekele would again get the better of Kipchoge at the Games as the pair finished first and second in the 5,000m and Bekele defended his 10,000m title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kipchoge has established himself as an all-time great since switching to marathon-running in 2013, winning 11 major races alongside his two Olympic gold medals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bekele produced the sixth-fastest debut over 26.2 miles (42.16km) when he made a winning marathon debut in Paris in April 2014, but his career since then has been hampered by injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now, 21 years on from their first battle in the French capital, this could be the final time Bekele and Kipchoge go head-to-head.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/ck5kgd5erz0o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great athletics rivalries of all time will be renewed at Paris 2024 after Kenenisa Bekele was named in Ethiopia&#8217;s marathon squad. The 41-year-old is a three-time Olympic champion over 5,000m and 10,000m but has not appeared at the Games since London 2012, when he finished fourth over the longer distance. 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