{"id":8975,"date":"2020-06-03T17:52:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T17:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=8975"},"modified":"2020-06-03T17:52:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T17:52:32","slug":"team-cheruiyot-breathing-fire-ahead-of-impossible-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/team-cheruiyot-breathing-fire-ahead-of-impossible-games","title":{"rendered":"Team Cheruiyot breathing fire ahead of Impossible Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> World champion upbeat as he gears up to lead Manangoi and others in virtual race against Norwegian brothers.<\/p>\n<p>World 1,500m champion Timothy Cheruiyot and his team are in high spirits as they prepare for the \u2018Impossible Games\u2019 on June 11.<\/p>\n<p>Cheruiyot and Manangoi, the 2017 world 1500m champion, will line up in the 2,000m contest at Nyayo Stadium while the Ingebrigtsen brothers in Henrik, Filip and Jakob test their mettle inside Bislett Stadium in Oslo, Norway.<\/p>\n<p>With Covid-19 outbreak having halted sporting activities across the globe, the Bislett Games will certainly be a perfect clash where Cheruiyot, Manangoi, Edwin Melli, Timothy Sein and Vincent Keter will battle against the Ingebrigtsen brothers<\/p>\n<p>Despite training at high altitude at 1,800m above sea level, Cheruiyot is oozing confidence ahead of the race against the compatriots in Oslo, which lies at almost sea level (23 metres).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are currently working on speed work and coordination with my teammates. We will give the Norwegian brothers a run for their money,\u201d said Cheruiyot.<\/p>\n<p>The race named \u2018The Maurie Plant Memorial\u2019 in honour of the Australian athletics agent who passed away in January this year will be the first virtual race for the Kenyans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will be the first virtual race for me also the first time I will compete in 2,000m. I am eager to see how it will go. It\u2019s good challenge and great opportunity for us,\u201d said Melly, who won Bronze medal in 1,500m race at the 2012 world junior Championships in Barcelona, Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Manangoi has recovered from a stress fracture that saw him miss the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis virtual race will be a great opportunity for me to test my recovery. Although we haven\u2019t trained together for long as a team due to Covid-19 restrictions, we are ready to challenge Jakob and his team. We have raced against him before and we are aware of his capabilities,\u201d Manangoi said.<\/p>\n<p>Team Cheruiyot is mainly drawn from Rongai Athletics Club under coach Bernard Ouma and they will competing mainly for entertainment purposes.<\/p>\n<p>There is no prize money for the winners, but the organisers, the Bislett Games will pay appearance fees for each of the athletes. The fees differ in each of the runners.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams will start with five runners and will have to finish with three. The winner of the match will be the team with the best overall time for three runners.<\/p>\n<p>Individual times will count as well, and the Ingebrigtsen brothers will have one eye on the European record of 4:51.39 held by Steve Cram, who will incidentally commentate the race.<\/p>\n<p>The race will be shown on international TV as a split screen competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Kenya: World champion upbeat as he gears up to lead Manangoi and others in virtual race against Norwegian brothers. World 1,500m champion Timothy Cheruiyot and his team are in high spirits as they prepare for the \u2018Impossible Games\u2019 on June 11. Cheruiyot and Manangoi, the 2017 world 1500m champion, will line up in the 2,000m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":8968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17],"tags":[3979,2760],"class_list":["post-8975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","tag-timothy-cheruiyot","tag-world-champion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Team Cheruiyot breathing fire ahead of Impossible Games - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"World champion upbeat as he gears up to lead Manangoi and others in virtual race against Norwegian brothers.World 1,500m champion\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/team-cheruiyot-breathing-fire-ahead-of-impossible-games\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Team Cheruiyot breathing fire ahead of Impossible Games\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"World champion upbeat as he gears up to lead Manangoi and others in virtual race against Norwegian brothers.World 1,500m champion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/team-cheruiyot-breathing-fire-ahead-of-impossible-games\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-03T17:52:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/06\/ehmhp3fgfsdsnkla5ed6b388a8fca.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"533\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/team-cheruiyot-breathing-fire-ahead-of-impossible-games#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/team-cheruiyot-breathing-fire-ahead-of-impossible-games\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Team Cheruiyot breathing fire ahead of Impossible Games\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-03T17:52:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/team-cheruiyot-breathing-fire-ahead-of-impossible-games\"},\"wordCount\":451,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/team-cheruiyot-breathing-fire-ahead-of-impossible-games#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/06\/ehmhp3fgfsdsnkla5ed6b388a8fca.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Timothy Cheruiyot\",\"world champion\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/team-cheruiyot-breathing-fire-ahead-of-impossible-games#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/team-cheruiyot-breathing-fire-ahead-of-impossible-games\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/team-cheruiyot-breathing-fire-ahead-of-impossible-games\",\"name\":\"Team Cheruiyot breathing fire ahead of Impossible Games - 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