HEAVEN’S GAIT
“Running is a democratic space.” So says the greatest male marathon runner of all time. Eliud Kipchoge recently became the first man in 40 years to win marathon gold at consecutive Olympic Games with victory on the streets of Tokyo.
He is used to breaking new ground.
A new film, Kipchoge: The Last Milestone,charts the Kenyan's mission to become the first human to run 26.2 miles in less than two hours. To put it into context, that means running a mile in less than 4min 35sec, then repeating that feat a further 25 times.
It is, as iconic track and field achievements go, up there with Roger Bannister’s first four-minute mile, when Jim Hines dipped under 10 seconds for the 100m in 1968 or Bob Beamon’s long jump heroics in Mexico
