{"id":15117,"date":"2023-04-18T05:11:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T05:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=15117"},"modified":"2023-04-18T05:13:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T05:13:01","slug":"i-will-be-back-declares-eliud-kipchoge-after-boston-marathon-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=15117","title":{"rendered":"I will be back declares Eliud Kipchoge after Boston marathon defeat."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>World marathon record holder Eliud Kipchoge has vowed to bounce back after falling short at the Boston Marathon on Monday evening.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While making his debut in Boston, Kipchoge finished sixth after clocking 2:09:23 in a race won by compatriot and defending champion Evans Chebet who clocked 2:05:54<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was Kipchoge\u2019s only third loss in his illustrious marathon career and the first since the London Marathon in 2020 where he finished eighth.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I live for the moments where I get to challenge the limits. It\u2019s never guaranteed, it\u2019s never easy. Today was a tough day for me. I pushed myself as hard as I could but sometimes, we must accept that today wasn\u2019t the day to push the barrier to a greater height. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hYadxV5yLE\">pic.twitter.com\/hYadxV5yLE<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Eliud Kipchoge &#8211; EGH\ud83c\uddf0\ud83c\uddea (@EliudKipchoge) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EliudKipchoge\/status\/1648049425762209799?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The loss also means that Kipchoge will have to wait for at least another year in his quest to win all the six world marathon majors where he only lacks Boston and New York City Marathon titles<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a social media post after the race, Kipchoge, 38, hinted that he might not be hanging his running shoes anytime soon.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong><em>\u201cI live for the moments where I get to challenge the limits. It\u2019s never guaranteed, it\u2019s never easy. Today was a tough day for me. I pushed myself as hard as I could but sometimes, we must accept that today wasn\u2019t the day to push the barrier to a greater height<\/em><\/strong>.<br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI want to congratulate my competitors and thank everyone in Boston and from home for the incredible support I am so humbled to receive. In sports you win and you lose and there is always tomorrow to set a new challenge. Excited for what\u2019s ahead.\u201d Kipchoge wrote on his official social media handles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World marathon record holder Eliud Kipchoge has vowed to bounce back after falling short at the Boston Marathon on Monday evening. While making his debut in Boston, Kipchoge finished sixth after clocking 2:09:23 in a race won by compatriot and defending champion Evans Chebet who clocked 2:05:54 It was Kipchoge\u2019s only third loss in his &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-games","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15118,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15117\/revisions\/15118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}