{"id":128082,"date":"2020-01-17T01:01:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/01\/17\/kenenisa-bekele-to-face-eliud-kipchoge-in-london-marathon-for-the-ages\/"},"modified":"2020-01-17T01:01:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:01:47","slug":"kenenisa-bekele-to-face-eliud-kipchoge-in-london-marathon-for-the-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=128082","title":{"rendered":"Kenenisa Bekele to face Eliud Kipchoge in London Marathon for the ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Three-time Olympic champion to take on world record holder\u2022 Bekele not surprised Mo Farah is returning to the trackKenenisa Bekele has agreed to race Eliud Kipchoge in a London Marathon for the ages in April \u2013 and said he is not surprised Mo Farah is swerving the race in favour of returning to the track.Bekele, a three-time Olympic gold medallist who has won 17 world titles over cross-country, track and road, roared with laughter when asked what he thought of Farah\u2019s decision to leave the marathon and then added: \u201cI am not surprised. Of course if you see Mo Farah\u2019s races in marathons, he\u2019s struggling \u2013 it\u2019s not easy to get good results over a marathon. You need experience. It\u2019s a different course, a different racing mentality. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2020\/jan\/17\/kenenisa-bekele-london-marathon-eliud-kipchoge\" target=\"_blank\">Kenenisa Bekele to face Eliud Kipchoge in London Marathon for the ages<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Three-time Olympic champion to take on world record holder\u2022 Bekele not surprised Mo Farah is returning to the trackKenenisa Bekele has agreed to race Eliud Kipchoge in a London Marathon for the ages in April \u2013 and said he is not surprised Mo Farah is swerving the race in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}