Kipchoge, Bekele face media ahead of London Marathon duel
A handout picture released by the the London Marathon on September 30, 2020 shows Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele (left) and Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge speaking to the media via Zoom in a virtual and socially distanced press conference from inside the official hotel and biosecure bubble for the historic elite-only 2020 Virgin Money London Marathon to be held on 4th October.
The Kenyan defended the use of the controversial carbon-fibre shoes he used to break the two-hour barrier in Austria in October 2019, which did not count as a world record due to the special conditions, including the use of rotating pacemakers.
Ethiopia's Bekele, a double 10,000m Olympic champion, was just two seconds outside Kipchoge's world record of 2hr 01min 39sec when he won last year's Berlin Marathon.
London, United Kingdom
Eliud Kipchoge and Kenenisa Bekele - the two fastest marathon runners of all time - said there were too many variables to predict a world record in Sunday's London Marathon.
