Saturday 10th August is the opening day of the 2013 Iaaf World Athletics Championships, and sees two gold medals up for contention, along with a host of preliminaries, and our first glance of the presumed star of the championships.
Olympic 5000m and 10000m champion Mo Farah will be hot favourite to take the 10000m title on the opening night of the championships. The Somali-born star will have it tough however, as five Ethiopians make the start lists, including Ibrihim Jeilan, who beat the adopted Englishman in the same event at Daegu two years ago. The team also contains legendary Ethiopian distance runner Kennenisa Bekele, who won gold at this event in the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games, as well as at 4 consecutive World Championships between 2003 and 2009. Whether the 31-year-old can recoup that form for Moscow is unknown, but he’s certainly not one to be disregarded lightly.
However, the first gold medal of...
Olympic 5000m and 10000m champion Mo Farah will be hot favourite to take the 10000m title on the opening night of the championships. The Somali-born star will have it tough however, as five Ethiopians make the start lists, including Ibrihim Jeilan, who beat the adopted Englishman in the same event at Daegu two years ago. The team also contains legendary Ethiopian distance runner Kennenisa Bekele, who won gold at this event in the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games, as well as at 4 consecutive World Championships between 2003 and 2009. Whether the 31-year-old can recoup that form for Moscow is unknown, but he’s certainly not one to be disregarded lightly.
However, the first gold medal of...
- 8/9/2013
- by Diarmuid Hickey
- Obsessed with Film
From the man who ran 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 days, to the Indian boy who had run 48 marathons by the age of four, documentary-makers across the globe have uncovered tales of extraordinary endurance
Even when it comes to the simple act of running, truth is stranger than fiction. After last week's rundown of 10 of the best fiction films, today we explore the documentary category, which reveals an array of extraordinary treks, exhilarating tales and examples of dogged endurance. Determined documentarians across the globe have uncovered a 97-year-old mountain runner, cancer survivors, an Indian child prodigy and a host of others as they trot, stagger and sprint through the streets of New York, the mountains of Ethiopia and the hot sands of the Sahara.
Here are 10 to seek out.
Run For Your Life
The story of how Jewish immigrant and eccentric showman Fred Lebow took the New York Marathon from a...
Even when it comes to the simple act of running, truth is stranger than fiction. After last week's rundown of 10 of the best fiction films, today we explore the documentary category, which reveals an array of extraordinary treks, exhilarating tales and examples of dogged endurance. Determined documentarians across the globe have uncovered a 97-year-old mountain runner, cancer survivors, an Indian child prodigy and a host of others as they trot, stagger and sprint through the streets of New York, the mountains of Ethiopia and the hot sands of the Sahara.
Here are 10 to seek out.
Run For Your Life
The story of how Jewish immigrant and eccentric showman Fred Lebow took the New York Marathon from a...
- 3/1/2013
- by Adam Dewar
- The Guardian - Film News
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