Edna Kiplagat hopes to send out a message to the Kenyan selectors who overlooked her for Olympic selection when she competes in the Chicago Marathon tomorrow (Saturday). “I want to send a message to my critics and Chicago will provide the best platform, though I know there are a number of athletes who will equally good to win the race,” she told journalists. “I have done well in training and what will be important is to win the race.”
Bank of Africa have organised an athletes’ viewing of the race at the Tortoise Hotel in Kapsabet.
The bank has been organising a series of World Marathon Majors viewing sessions where athletes are also educated on investment, banking and taxation.
Kenya Revenue Authority are partners of the Bank of Africa “viewerthons.”
Kiplagat said she is also looking to put a marker down ahead of the World Championships in London next year, where she could aim for a record third world marathon title.
