Canada's Marco Arop prepares to receives his 2023 men's 800-metre world championship gold medal from world-record holder David Rudisha. Now, Arop has his eyes on taking down Rudisha's mark while winning Olympic gold.
When Canadian middle-distance runner Marco Arop met his hero David Rudisha, it was everything he could have imagined. Now, hopes to follow in Rudisha's footsteps with an Olympic gold medal and world record this summer, beginning at Saturday's Diamond League.Canada's Marco Arop prepares to receives his 2023 men's 800-metre world championship gold medal from world-record holder David Rudisha. Now, Arop has his eyes on taking down Rudisha's mark while winning Olympic gold.
Now, Arop has his eyes set on breaking Rudisha's 800 world record, a pursuit that continues in earnest at the first Diamond League event in China this Saturday.The Edmonton runner captured Canada's first-ever gold medal in the 800 meters after a dominant second lap. That just happens to be the 2012 Olympic final in London. Rudisha, a Kenyan middle-distance runner, had set the world record in the distance two years prior to those Games.
So then imagine that moment for Arop — after having modelled everything about how he was going to run the 800 after Rudisha – to not only be meeting Rudisha for the first time at the world championships, but having it be when Arop won his first gold medal. "He has the posture. The structure. He is tall. He has a very beautiful stride. I know he's a very talented runner. I saw him early in his career running from the front. Very aggressive."As Rudisha continues to describe Arop's style, he pauses for a moment only to realize he's describing exactly how he ran the race, and how people described him.
"I'm feeling really good and staying healthy is the biggest thing. Sometimes these major championships come down to who's the healthiest."The 25-year-old has staggered his competition schedule to ensure he's getting quality races in but also getting periods of rest before the biggest stage of them all — the 2024 Paris Olympics, now less than 100 days away.
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