Sifan Hassan met with the media to talk about her upcoming London Marathon appearance and was full of interesting quotes which Jonathan Gault recaps here:
When asked for her feelings of Ruth Chepngetich's 2:09:56 WR
"My brain didn’t really check [it] mentally....She wasn’t in Paris with us. [The last time] she ran with me [at 2023 Chicago], she ran 2:15. Sometimes if an athlete is close, 2:11 or something, you suspect the athlete [could improve that much]. It didn’t come to my head that Ruth was going to run that time...No one thought a female would run that time – maybe in the future, but [not this soon]."
"Now when I look back, it is amazing, incredible. It's fantastic what she did. I’m really happy that she did it. Because I don’t care how [Ruth] did it, it just showed me it is possible."