How far can one run in an hour on a track? Some of the world’s greatest distance runners will provide answers on Friday.
Mo Farah, Brigid Kosgei and Sifan Hassan headline fields in rarely contested one-hour races at a Diamond League meet in Brussels. Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA and NBC Sports Gold air coverage on Friday at 2 p.m. ET.
The women go first. Kosgei and Hassan are the world’s dominant female distance runners.
Kosgei, a 26-year-old Kenyan, took 81 seconds off Paula Radcliffe‘s 16-year-old marathon world record last Oct.