Quotes
After I came from track I achieved a lot in marathon,
said Tola, who broke a 12-year course record when he won last year's New York marathon I trained so hard for this. This is my great achievement in life,
People have been talking about me and Kipchoge, but you see it was the young generation today. These guys are stronger than us,
I was the reserve but I was fully prepared and knew I could fulfill my dream,
This is the greatest day of my life,
said Tola, who had previously won a bronze medal in Rio over 10,000m, as well as the 2022 world championship marathon and 2023 New York marathon Tola was away and gone,
This is the hardest marathon course I’ve ever run,
I’m pretty good at hills – I tried to keep a good pace,
The first part of the race we were together, talking and trying to move together. But I don’t know what happened, so I will go and see him,
Kipruto said of Kipchoge after the finish The course was very tough today so I tried not to lose a lot of energy, I tried to run as smart as possible so I’m very happy with this result,
Should have been a little more conservative, but I wanted a chance to medal,
My intention was just to keep up with the people who were going out and then after some point I decided to try to push on my own,
It was tough, you know, to challenge those guys,
La victoire appartient au plus opiniatre
There is a saying that gets batted around a lot in the French capital Not easy to win the Olympic Games,
he said, in perhaps the understatement of the past two weeks in Paris