{"id":1084,"date":"2016-06-07T11:40:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T11:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/2016\/06\/07\/kiprop-targets-fifth-dream-mile-win\/"},"modified":"2016-06-07T11:40:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T11:40:08","slug":"kiprop-targets-fifth-dream-mile-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/kiprop-targets-fifth-dream-mile-win\/","title":{"rendered":"KIPROP TARGETS FIFTH DREAM MILE WIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height:normal\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\" lang=\"EN-US\">Triple world champion, 2008 Olympic champion and current world lead in the 1500m and mile, Asbel Kiprop (KEN) is in good form <span style=\"color:#2B2829\">producing one of the performances of the day at the Birmingham Diamond League last Sunday claiming the 1500m meeting record and also revising his own world lead finishing in 3.29.33.&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height:normal\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color:#2B2829\" lang=\"EN-US\">Fully refreshed and looking forward to the Thursday\u2019s race he said:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height:normal\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color:#2B2829\" lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cI have had three days recovery and it is good weather so far, so I feel ready and capable of running my personal best. Depending on the weather on the day, I am optimistic that I can run fast. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height:normal\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color:#2B2829\" lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cAfter the race here I go back to Kenya for three weeks preparation for the Kenyan trials and then, hopefully, Rio. It will not be easy because we have so many talented runners but I will try my best.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height:normal\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color:#2B2829\" lang=\"EN-US\">Having been awarded the Olympic gold for the 1500m in 2008 <\/span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\" lang=\"EN-US\">after the original winner, <link https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rashid_Ramzi><span style=\"color:windowtext; text-decoration:none; text-underline:none\">Rashid Ramzi<\/span><\/link>, tested positive for <link https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Use_of_performance-enhancing_drugs_in_sport><span style=\"color:windowtext; text-decoration:none; text-underline:none\">doping<\/span><\/link><span style=\"color:#1C1C1C\">, Kiprop feels this is added motivation to succeed. \u201cThe sweetest moment for any athlete is to win Olympic gold and have the national anthem played in the stadium.&nbsp; It is every athlete\u2019s dream.&nbsp; Being denied this in Beijing has given me extra motivation to work hard and achieve that dream.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height:normal\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color:#2B2829\" lang=\"EN-US\">Kiprop\u2019s biggest threats in the Dream Mile include current world number two and silver medalist at last year\u2019s World Championships, fellow countryman, Eijah Motonel Managoi.&nbsp; Current Olympic Champion at 1500m, Algerian, Taoufik Makhloufi will be out to challenge the Kenyan domination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height:normal\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color:#2B2829\" lang=\"EN-US\">The Dream Mile has unrivalled pedigree with the stadium record being held by Moroccan, Hicham El Guerrouj at 3:44.90 since 1997.&nbsp; Other illustrious winners have included Great Britain\u2019s Sebastian Coe, Steve Ovett and Steve Cram; New Zealand\u2019s John Walker, Moroccan Said Aouita and Noureddine Mourceli of Algeria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height:normal\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\" lang=\"EN-US\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four-time winner of the Bislett Dream Mile, Asbel Kiprop is seeking his fifth win in Oslo this...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oslo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}