In sport, as in life, they say you should never let a good crisis go to waste, and when it was clear something was amiss with Kipchoge, that’s exactly what Kitata did.
. While he was still running with the pack at that point, and even moved back near the front, his face had already given the game away: The marathon king was in obvious distress.
He injected a strong surge with a little more than a mile to run, which dropped his Ethiopian compatriot Mosinet Geremew. As Kitata powered past Buckingham Palace for the final time and made the right-hand turn on to The Mall, he still had unwanted company. It was a hard-earned win for an athlete who had an imperfect preparation. Having struggled with injury and some personal issues in 2019, the father-of-two bounced back to form with a bang in 2020.
“Sport is unpredictable, but you know what they say: If you want to enjoy sport then you accept the results.” “I am truly disappointed,” he said. “I’m sorry about this, but that’s how sport is. The last 5K I discovered something is wrong—my legs are not moving, my ear is totally blocked. I tried to keep going and I tried to finish.”“His right ear got fully blocked,” he wrote in a text message. “From then on he also didn’t go for the drinks anymore and it affected the whole system.”
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