![]() Unlike the unpredictable conditions of most major marathons, these sub-two-hour attempts engineered the perfect conditions to produce a fast time. Kipchoge coined that phrase during the INEOS 1:59 Challenge, his second attempt to run an unofficial sub-two-hour marathon following Nike’s Breaking2 project in Monza, Italy, in 2017. “I think he really lives by his code of no human is limited.” He doesn’t put himself above any other person,” Scott adds. “Eliud is not somebody who draws attention to himself … he doesn’t distinguish himself in that way. Within his elite training group, Kipchoge is “very much the captain amongst the other runners,” according to Scott, and leads in an understated manner. And when he does speak, he says something incredibly important.” “Eliud, it’s not that he’s elusive or he’s evasive in any way, he’s just quiet. “Because he’s so reserved and quiet and humble, he’s quite hard to access,” Scott tells CNN Sport. Kipchoge’s mantra - that “no human is limited” - is one he strives to embody through his running, rather than words. ![]() “My real excitement in Tokyo is no longer about competing at an Olympic Games - it’s about making a legacy,” he said last week. ![]() On Sunday in Sapporo, the Japanese city 500 miles north of Tokyo, 36-year-old Kipchoge became the third man to defend an Olympic marathon title. Of the 14 major marathons he’s entered, he’s won 12 of them. He set the marathon world record of two hours, one minute and 41 seconds in Berlin three years ago, before becoming the first man to unofficially run the distance in under two hours the year after.
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