1000 days before Paris 2024, a race organized on the Champs-Élysées with the double Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge
The double Olympic champion will challenge 2,000 amateur runners on Sunday to promote the Paris Olympics.
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Olympic marathon champion in August in Tokyo, Eliud Kipchoge will run against a bit special opponents, Sunday October 31 from 10 a.m. 1,000 days before the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games, an exceptional race will be organized on the Champs-Elysées, attended by 2,000 runners.
According to the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games, the objective of this course entitled “Marathon for All” is to “live an experience as close as possible to the Olympic athletesIn all, the event will be 5 kilometers long and will take part of the Olympic marathon path.
Atypical, the course will allow participants – selected in advance by drawing lots – to challenge Kipchoge … who started last with a time penalty which has not been specified by the organization for the moment. He then tried to catch up with his opponents. All those who resist the return from Kenya will keep their Olympic bib. This will allow them to taste the Games too.
Challenge the greatest marathoner of all time @EliudKipchoge on 10/31 at #Paris ! Try to win your bib for the #MarathonforAll # Paris2024 by registering on Club P24!
https://t.co/Jnl3UhugsY pic.twitter.com/pBz3tzlM7m– FranceOlympique (@FranceOlympique) October 14, 2021
They will thus participate in the marathon which will take place, for the first time in history, at the same time as the Olympic event in Paris in 2024.
World record holder in the marathon, Kipchoge is the first man to pass below the 2 h 2 min mark. At the start of his career, he first specialized in 5,000 meters, finishing 2nd at the Athens Games in 2004 and then 3rd in Beijing in 2008.
The Kenyan then favored the longer events. He took it well, since he ran for Olympic gold twice, in 2016 and then in 2021. At 36, he is one of the best marathoners in history.