Why Eliud Kipchoge's Remarkable 1:59 Marathon Won't Be an Official World Record

今日は、Marathonの話題です。皆さんはマラソンと言う片仮名で通常、日本語で使っておられるでしょうが、いざ英語のつづりは？と言われると…カタカナ英語を正しい英語で覚え直しておくと、単語力が上がります。

今日の内容は、難しくなくKipchoge（アフリカのマラソン選手：キプチョグ氏）がとうとう2時間の壁を破り、世界記録を立てたお話。しかし、これは正式の記録には残りません。何故なら…

という記事です。2段目の彼の言葉は、簡潔で誰でも使える構文です。

真似して音読して見て下さい。

Eliud Kipchoge just became the first athlete to ever run a marathon in under two hours. The Kenyan Olympic champion just set a world-first time at the INEOS 1:59 challenge in Vienna, Austria, completing the 26.2 mile course in one hour, 59 minutes and 40 seconds.

"This shows no-one is limited," the 34-year-old gold medallist said. "Now I've done it, I am expecting more people to do it after me... This shows the positivity of sport. I want to make it a clean and interesting sport. Together when we run, we can make it a beautiful world."

However, Kipchoge's achievement will not count as an official world record, as the INEOS 1:59 was not an open competition, but rather an event designed with the specific goal of breaking the two hour mark — which Kipchoge did by a whole 20 seconds.