The 38-year-old Kenyan was not made available after the race, issuing a statement through the Boston Athletic Association and on social media. “In a marathon, anything can happen,” women's winner Hellen Obiri said Monday. He finished in 2 hours, 9 minutes, 23 seconds – 3 1/2 minutes behind back-to-back winner Evans Chebet. In one of the most-anticipated arrivals in the race's recent history, Kipchoge came to Boston as a heavy favorite to add the world’s oldest and most prestigious marathon to his already unprecedented resume.īut after leading a pack of about a dozen runners through the first 20 miles, he quickly dropped behind in the series of climbs that have come to be known as Heartbreak Hill. They say it’s important to win, but it’s great to participate and finish.” “A lot of thought was going on in my mind but I said, ‘Hey, I can’t quit.’ I’ve been in this sport for a long (time).
So I put my mind just trying to cope with the pace and just to finish,” he said.
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“I tried to do what was necessary but it wasn’t working. He would not elaborate – “I’m not a doctor” – but allowed that it was his upper leg. Let us forget about the canceled checks, let us talk of the cash and the promissory notes.”Ī day after finishing sixth in his Boston debut, Kipchoge said he had a problem with his left leg that prevented him from pushing the pace. “You know, there is three things: Yesterday is a canceled check. So let us discuss it as a challenge and move on,” he said. “I can’t win every time,” he told reporters a day after his slowest marathon ever and just his third loss in a major race to go with 12 victories. The historic route from Hopkinton to Boston’s Back Bay isn’t going to change, and that was the biggest problem for the two-time Olympic gold medalist who set a world record on the flattest of the major marathon courses and broke 2 hours in a completely controlled environment.
BOSTON – The rain might be gone if Eliud Kipchoge returns for another try at the Boston Marathon, as he said Tuesday he intends to do.
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