The women’s marathon of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris will take place on Sunday, August 11, 2024 (11.08.24) in France.

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What you need to know:

What: Women’s Marathon

When: Sunday, August 11

Time: 2 Am

TV: NBC

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Here is a recent Olympic story from the Associated Press:

PARIS (AP) — The memory of Kenyan Kelvin Kiptum looms over the men’s Olympic marathon.

His rivals will race through the streets of Paris on Saturday, looking to win a gold medal he would have been the favorite to win, staring at a world record time he once set.

The 24-year-old marathon prodigy was Kenya’s newest star before his death in February. He was killed in a car crash along with his coach, the latest tragedy in the country’s famed long-distance running community.

His teammate Benson Kipruto remembers waking up to the news. He couldn’t train. Too heartbroken. So he’ll think of Kiptum on the start line – a brief reminder of the runner he didn’t know that well, but who still made a big impression on him. Once the race starts, though, Kipruto will focus on running – because that’s what Kiptum would have done too.

“Kelvin, much like an athlete like Usain Bolt, is the kind of talent that comes along once in a lifetime,” Kipruto wrote in an email before the Paris Games. “He was obviously very special.”

The proof of this is the Chicago Marathon last October. There, pacemakers were set up to help the marathon runners get off to a fast start, but they could not keep up with Kiptum.

Nobody could do that.

He broke the world record and almost broke the sacred 2-hour mark. His time on that chilly day in Chicago was 2 hours and 35 seconds, beating the record held by fellow Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge by 34 seconds.

“(Kiptum) would have been the face of marathon running for the next five to seven years,” said Carey Pinkowski, chief race director of the Chicago Marathon. “He was just so talented. I’m sure he would have won the Olympic marathon in Paris.”

“We miss him very much every day”

Kiptum’s agent Marc Corstjens was awakened by a phone call in the middle of the night.

There had been an accident. Kiptum had disappeared.

“You don’t expect news like this,” Corstjens said in a telephone interview. “We miss him very much every day.”

Kiptum and his Rwandan coach Gervais Hakizimana were killed in the crash on February 11 near the town of Kaptagat in western Kenya. The town lies in the heart of the high mountain region known as a training base for the best long-distance runners in Kenya and the world.

Kiptum was born and raised in the area. He leaves behind a wife and two children.

The news spread quickly among the Kenyan runners training at their camp in Kapsabet.

“Someone heard the news during the night and started waking everyone up to tell us,” Kipruto explained. “The next morning we were supposed to have a group training session, but we were all too sad to go to training.”

A community that is used to mourning together

In recent years there have been repeated news reports of the deaths of prominent Kenyan runners.

Marathon runner Francis Kiplagat was one of five people killed in a car accident in 2018. Nicholas Bett, who won gold in the 400-meter hurdles at the 2015 World Championships, also died in a car accident in 2018.

Samuel Wanjiru, the 2008 Olympic marathon champion who, like Kiptum, was on the path to fame, died in 2011 at the age of 24 after falling from a balcony of his home in Kenya. In 2021, Agnes Tirop, a multiple world cross-country champion, was stabbed to death in her home, allegedly by her husband. He was charged with murder.

As the race approaches, other Kenyan runners are thinking of Kiptum.

“His presence will stay with us for a long time,” said Hellen Obiri, a two-time Olympic silver medalist in the 5,000 meters who will compete in the women’s marathon on Sunday. “For Team Kenya, it’s ‘let’s do this for him.’ We want to do it for him. We want to do it for the country.”

“It would have taken him less than two hours”

Kiptum made a name for himself by winning the 2022 Valencia Marathon with a time of 2:01.53, the fastest time ever for a debutant. The following year, he improved his time by 28 seconds to win the London Marathon.

This laid the foundation for his world record performance in Chicago, a race in which he beat second-placed Kipruto by more than three minutes.

“I remember how fast the pace was already at 5K and that I couldn’t keep up,” Kipruto said. “I also remember when I crossed the finish line, I heard about the (world record) and was surprised but not shocked.”

This was to be Kiptum’s last marathon. In April he was scheduled to run the Rotterdam Marathon, where many believed he could break the two-hour mark.

“I’m sure it would have taken him under two hours in Rotterdam,” said Pinkowski. “He was effortless. You can see how he moved across the floor – it was incredible.”

Kipchoge, the two-time reigning Olympic champion, actually ran a marathon in 2019, finishing with a time of 1:59.40.2. However, conditions were so tightly controlled that the marathon was not recognized as a world record in order to maximize his goal.

Kiptum and Kipchoge were expected to ensure an exciting all-Kenyan battle for the Olympic title in Paris.

Instead, this race through Versailles and Paris is about a man seeking to make history – Kipchoge hopes to become the first person to win the Olympic marathon three times in a row – and another whose chances were ended prematurely.

“We all know Kelvin should have been in Paris to run that Olympic marathon,” Kipruto said. “So he will undoubtedly be remembered.”

(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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