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
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