{"id":1158,"date":"2021-06-27T07:55:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T07:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/2021\/06\/27\/once-again-it-is-kenya-against-ethiopia\/"},"modified":"2021-06-27T07:55:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T07:55:30","slug":"once-again-it-is-kenya-against-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/once-again-it-is-kenya-against-ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Once again it is Kenya against Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">It has almost become a tradition that the battle for victory and trophies in the longest running distances is a duel between Kenya and Ethiopia. This is also how it seems to be at Oslo Bislett Games&#8217; 5000 meters.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">The field is led by Kenyan World Champion from Doha in 2019, Hellen Obiri, who has topped the World Rankings in the event for 113 weeks in a row. She brings with her the country women Margaret Chelimo Kipkemboi and Beatrice Chebet, who are number four and ten respectively in the ranking.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">But between them we find Ethiopian Fantu Worku who is in eighth place, and Tsehay Gemechu should not be forgotten either.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Turkish Yasemin Can, British Eilish McColgan and Norway&#8217;s Karoline Bjerkeli Gr\u00f8vdal are expected to fight to become the best Europeans.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has almost become a tradition that the battle for victory and trophies in the longest running...","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-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oslo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","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=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}