Kenya’s Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge left the country on Monday night to Vienna ahead of his attempt to become the first man to run the 42-kilometre distance in under two hours this weekend.
Goal spoke to a number of Kenyan Premier League stars who expressed their confidence Kipchoge will achieve his target.
Kipchoge, 34, is now in a class of his own in global distance running, having shattered the world marathon record last year, running the distance in two hours, one minute and 39 seconds in Berlin.
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Just over a week ago, his Ethiopian nemesis, multiple world distance running record holder Kenenisa Bekele, 37, came within two seconds of his record by running 2:01:41 in the German city.