Keninisa Bekele, the world and Olympic champion at 10,000 meters, takes aim at his own world record in the 10K Friday night in Brussels. Bekele, 25, ran 26:17.53 two years ago in the Memorial Van Damme meet in Brussels, and feels he is in better shape now. His coach Jos Hermens, confirms that Bekele is fit:
“Kenenisa put in so much work to catch-up after his rest following Mombasa that in my opinion he came to Osaka over-trained, and we could see how tired he was in the latter part of the race there in Japan.”
“I am expecting that after fully recovering from the tiredness and the high of Osaka that there are still more highlights to come from his season. This is an athlete coming into his peak form relatively late in the year, and I hope we will see the result of his great preparation on Friday,”
One problem might be finding anyone who can rabbit the race, since there are a very few number of human beings on the planet who can run 5K in 13:10, and many of them, including Bekele's younger brother Tariku, will be in the 5000m race in the same meet.
Here is the link to the IAAF article
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Bekele finished in 26:48 I believe (or the 26:40's)
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