Stephen Kiprotich won Uganda’s first ever marathon medal with a gold Sunday morning at the Olympics, winning in a time of 2:08:01. Team USA’s Meb Keflezighi came in fourth place, and was the only American finisher.
Meb Is Awesome
At 37 years old, Meb Keflezighi was the oldest member of Team USA in Sunday’s Olympic marathon. And after Ryan Hall and Abdi Abdirahman were forced to withdraw with injury, he was the only member of Team USA in Sunday’s Olympic marathon. Meb finished fourth, running a 2:11:06, which, somewhat amazingly, is 23 seconds faster than his silver-medal-winning time from Athens.
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Read Article >Ryan Hall: ‘I’m Kind Of In Shock’
Team USA’s Ryan Hall dropped out of the 2012 Olympic Marathon around mile 11 Sunday morning, an obviously disappointing result for the owner of the fastest time ever run by an American. And considering he’s never really had a bad marathon, seeing him step off the course was especially shocking.
But maybe no one was more shocked than Hall himself, as he told NBC:
Read Article >Americans Ryan Hall, Abdihakem Abdirahman Withdraw From Olympic Marathon
Two of the Team USA runners in the men’s marathon have dropped out of the race in the early going Sunday morning at the Summer Olympics.
Ryan Hall, the fastest American marathoner ever, stepped off the course roughly 54 minutes into the marathon and appeared to be grabbing his right hamstring, just below his butt cheek. Hall had been battling plantar fasciiitis since the fall. Then just seconds later, teammate Abdihakem Abdirahman withdrew, seemingly favoring his right foot.
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