![]() ![]() “You can always look back and say, ‘Well, if we hadn’t done, would he have run better in the 10k and we should have done more speed work?” Salazar said. Rupp and Salazar expressed some relief that the risk they took in training for two vastly different races – the marathon is more than four times as longer- didn’t wash out his entire Olympics. He ran with the lead group tightly packed over the first half of the race, and after the 18-mile mark, he and two others, Kenya’s Eliod Kipchoge and Ethiopia’s Feyisa Lilesa, broke away. Rupp’s performance Sunday wasn’t without a significant amount of pain. We’re back to where we were in the late ’70s or early ’80s, where Americans are competing to win medals again at all events.” “It’s so exciting to see the U.S., the resurgence in distance running in this country. ![]() ![]() “It’s fantastic,” said Alberto Salazar, the marathon legend who serves as Rupp’s coach. ![]()
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