adminIten. — The elite field for this year’s London marathon was unveiled on Saturday in the Kenyan Rift Valley town of Iten where most of the top contenders have converged to take advantage of the high altitude ahead of the big race in April.The athletes, including Britain’s double world and Olympic champion Mo Farah and two-time New York marathon winner, Geoffrey Mutai, warmed up on the new tartan track funded by the London marathon organisers which was opened by Kenyan-born Dutch athlete, Lornah Kiplagat.
Farah, who is set to making his first serious marathon debut in London having run in last year’s edition but admitted beforehand he would not be running the full distance, arrived in Kenya in January to join a part of the British endurance team already in Kenya and preparing for the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
However, fellow British distance star, Paula Radcliffe, who is also in Kenya, predicted it will not be easy for Farah to make the jump from the track to the roads of the British capital and keep up with the Kenyan stars.
“It is going to be very emotional for Mo (Farah) to go and do it, especially because he will going into his own debut. — AFP.
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