Tokyo Olympics

[RV Pundit]

Museveni anakuuma. We can decide to annex half kenya back to Uganda and Ruto can inherit Museveni .

Kongoi werin'yu @joshuacheptege1. To Kiplimo and Chelimo, we have all won. pic.twitter.com/Nwqc9FG4G7

— Yoweri K Museveni (@KagutaMuseveni) August 6, 2021

Kimeli melts in the last 20 yards. Kales in kenya are getting schooled my ,Museveni kales  ..Bure sana hawa Hastla wa mwizi ruto

[Gikomba_Hawker]

Let's hope Brigid brings the marathon gold tomorrow. I wonder how Jemima is doing. An 8-year ban is not a light thing.

[Gikomba_Hawker]

What is sad is that you have to go to a non-Kenyan source to really appreciate what Faith accomplished:

Kipyegon finished a well-beaten second behind Hassan in 2019 but the fact that she was able to run 3:54 and take the silver in that race is actually pretty incredible considering she had given birth to daughter Alyn a year earlier and did not have a smooth recovery ahead of Worlds (she raced just twice in 2019 before Worlds). This time around, Kipyegon was in much better shape and said she was proud to win the gold medal for Alyn and could not wait to celebrate with her in her home village in Kenya.
https://www.letsrun.com/news/2021/08/kipyegon-gold-muir-silver-hassan-bronze-1500-2020-olympics/

Faith get 1500m - she is underrated champion - with two back-to-back gold medals now.

[RV Pundit]

Marathon gold and silver...look like we can still salvage this olympics with 1500 men, 10k women and men marathon expected to bring more medals.

[RV Pundit]

Njamba - there were at least 10 kalenjin representing many countries
Women Marathon, Kalenjin is International!
1. Peres Jepchirchir - Kenya
2. Bridgit Kosgei - Kenya
3. Ruth Chepngetich - Kenya
4. Eunice Chebichii Chumba - Bahrain
5. Sally Kipyego - USA
6. Immaculate Chemutai - Uganda
7. Susan Jeptoo - France
8. Juliet Chekwel - Uganda
9. Aliphine Chepkerker - USA
10. Lonah Chemtai Salpeter - Israel

[RV Pundit]

Eliud become the greatest long distance runner ever..ever to be seen

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

I was glad Eliud was able to pull it off.

Cherono, on the other hand, got played by wariah.

"We can BOTH be Olympic medalists!"

What a finish for silver and bronze in the men's marathon between Nageeye, Abdi, and Cherono! #TokyoOlympics

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[Gikomba_Hawker]

...At age 36, Kipchoge is the oldest to win the men's marathon at the Olympics since Carlos Lopes, who was 37 when he won in 1984.

Really, this was a running clinic. Kipchoge smiled along the way and even fist-bumped a fellow racer. Kipchoge becomes the third athlete to win multiple gold medals in the men's marathon, joining Abebe Bikila (1960, '64) and Waldemar Cierpinski ('76, '80).

...The fans saw a dominant performance from Kipchoge, who was a huge favorite as both the defending champion from Rio de Janeiro and the world-record holder (2:01:39). In October 2019, he became the first to complete a marathon in under two hours. The time didn't count as a world record, though, because it wasn't held under race conditions.

Already etched in the Kenyan record books, Kipchoge added another chapter: He joined Kip Keino and Vivian Cheruiyot on the women's side as the only ones from the country to win four Olympic medals.

In addition to his marathon golds, Kipchoge has silver ('08) and bronze ('04) in the 5,000 meters.

...Kipchoge diligently trained at elevation to get ready for this race. He said the key to running "is not magic science. It's not rocket science, to be at the top for a long time."

Instead, he attributes his "systems" for his success -- teammates who can push him and a coach who can teach.

Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge repeats as Olympic men's marathon champion
https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/31983062/kenya-eliud-kipchoge-repeats-olympic-marathon-champion

[Gikomba_Hawker]

Interesting article:

Even more amazing, over three-quarters of the Kenyan champions come from one ethnic community of 6.4 million - the Kalenjin - who are a group of Southern Nilotic peoples indigenous to East Africa.

Numerous studies mainly by Western nations have been conducted to establish the reason behind the extraordinary success of Kenyan runners.

Studies have found significant differences in body mass index and bone structure between the Western athletes and the Kenyans who had bested them.

The studied Kenyans had less mass for their height, longer legs, shorter torsos, and more slender limbs.

Speaking to Xinhua on Tuesday, Irish missionary and athletics coach Brother Colm O'Connell who is widely known as the "Godfather of Kenyan running" explained the excellence of Kenyan runners cannot be summed into a single or a set of reasons.

"What I would put above everything else is Kenya has created a running culture that is more important than all other factors or potential factors such as genetics, good climate and rural areas of training," O'Connell said.

...While Kenya once again topped the African medal charts at the Olympics, O'Connell is concerned that the dominance is under threat from lack of good facilities as well as the collapse of the country's school structures that unearthed hundreds of champion runners in the past.

For years, the cultural argument was that Kenyans become great runners because they often run several kilometers to and from school every day but that has been debunked in recent times.

Champion Kenyan athletes either walk or take the bus to school like normal children do and since the turn of the century, many stopped running bare feet which were thought to develop good habits.

It was also previously thought that the simple Kenyan diet mainly rich in carbohydrates and protein was responsible, but the reality is champion athletes eat nothing special.

...A few European studies in Germany and Denmark concluded Kenyans enjoy a genetic advantage over other runners with the average Kalenjin capable of beating 90 percent of the global population.

Tokyo 2020 class cements Kenya's position as nation of top runners
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2021-08/11/c_1310121468.htm