You’ll have seen all around the web immediately that Kenya has “minimize down” or “trimmed” its 2024 Olympic marathon workforce from an extended record of 10 potential entrants per intercourse to 5 for the boys and 6 for the ladies.
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PARIS 2024 WOMEN’S MARATHON TEAM!🫶💃🏽6️⃣ Ladies!
We’re bringing the entire workforce to ROAR, and Sweep the PODIUM!😎That is US! That is #TeamKenya! pic.twitter.com/4lNmFwFhgJ
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I wouldn’t put any inventory into it.
What’s not being reported is that one of many males on the record now — Alexander Mutiso — wasn’t even on the unique provisional marathon workforce that got here out in early December. The fact is that when Athletics Kenya put out that preliminary record of 10 athletes, AK’s director of competitions Paul Mutwii admitted that others may very well be added to the record in the event that they proved to be higher than these at present on the record. That’s what occurred with Mutiso as he promptly completed second in Valencia in 2:03:11.
So Athletics Kenya has proven that it’s prepared so as to add worthy athletes to the workforce even when they arrive from outdoors the record. With the spring marathon season upon us, I’ve to imagine that’s nonetheless the case (and have despatched an e mail to Athletics Kenya asking for affirmation).
Evans Chebet, who’s operating the Boston Marathon on April 15, was not listed on the preliminary record of 10, nor the up to date record of 5 launched on Thursday. Are you telling me that if Chebet wins Boston — which might give him 4 straight marathon wins (all of them majors, together with three straight Bostons) and 7 wins in his final eight — he received’t be thought-about for the workforce? I believe he’ll.
It’s value stating that the 5 males listed as candidates for the workforce at present are the 5 highest-ranked Kenyans on the Street to Paris males’s marathon rankings. Chebet doesn’t have a Street to Paris rankings as he was harm and didn’t run a fall marathon in 2023, however he’ll get one assuming he finishes in Boston.
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