The Prime News (Oct 3, 2020): Ethiopian star Kenenisa Bekele has been ruled out of the London Marathon due to injury. Five-time best runner and three-time Olympic gold medalist, Kenenisa Beqele, reported in a video via web-based media Friday that he will no longer be contending in the exceptionally foreseen London Marathon on Sunday that would have expected him facing Kenyan icon and world record-holder Eliud Kipchoge.

Kenensa clarified that he had been managing uncertain agony in his left calf subsequent to trying too hard at preparing fourteen days earlier and recognized that his choice to pull back from the race could disillusion his fans — for sure, as local people from his local Bekoji running star town were at that point drawing motivation from the competition to continue preparing after a Covid-19 forced 8-month closed in the nation.