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Bashir Abdi choose within two weeks between the world CHAMPIONSHIPS athletics or Chicago marathon

Athletics just Two days after he in London the 24-year-old national record of Vincent Rousseau on the marathon of the tables wiped, judge Bashir Abdi with his e

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Bashir Abdi choose within two weeks between the world CHAMPIONSHIPS athletics or Chicago marathon
Athletics just Two days after he in London the 24-year-old national record of Vincent Rousseau on the marathon of the tables wiped, judge Bashir Abdi with his eye already on the future: “I strive for a medal at the Olympic Games but the competition is particularly strong.”

In the offices of his sponsor NN Running Team, 60 athletes from 13 countries unites with world record holder and olympic champion That Kipchoge as a major pacesetter, took Bashir Abdi today the time to meet with the press to talk after his phenomenal marathon in London, where he was a new Belgian record of 2u07:03 klokte, 17 hundredths faster than Vincent Rousseau in 1995 in Berlin. “It still had a lot faster in the olympics, but after 40 km I came to really the man with the hammer,” says the 30-year-old Belgian of Somali origin. “I didn't know what happened to me. It seemed as though my body changed, I recognized it not. I could have my legs almost not lift, I was just a skater that his feet could just go on sliding. I have been in that last two kilometres of unimaginably lost a lot of time. I saw in the distance the finish line and I saw the chrono running, but I was not able to accelerate.”

Abdi said in advance that he is one great purpose: his personal record of Rotterdam 2018 (2u10:46) to improve and immediately below the olympic minimum (2u11:30) for Tokyo 2020 and diving. In reality he had a different goal in mind. “2u07.00 that I wanted to walk. I remained there three seconds over, but I'm glad that I have the record broke. I doubted whether I made was for the marathon - London found me at ease. And it was always my dream to a performance to ensure that the country would notice, and everyone would be proud of. That I am in Belgium is due, that me so many chances and opportunities.” Abdi had as a teenager, to escape from his native country and was established in 2002 in Gent, together with his two brothers, sister and father, reunited with his mother. (continue reading below photo)

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