ANKLE TWIST POSSIBLE CONCERN FOR ERKESSO AT 2011 BOSTON MARATHON
ANKLE TWIST POSSIBLE CONCERN FOR ERKESSO AT 2011 BOSTON MARATHON
ANKLE TWIST POSSIBLE CONCERN FOR ERKESSO (2011 Boston Marathon)
By Chris Lotsbom
(c) 2011 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved, Used with Permission
BOSTON (15-Apr) -- Teyba Erkesso's smile is a city block wide whenever someone mentions the Boston Marathon. The 28-year-old Ethiopian won the 2010 edition of the Hopkinton-to-Boston race in 2:26:11, holding off a fast charging Tatyana Pushkareva by three seconds. Under a white Nike cap, her smile made her face gleam at the marathon's media session here today.
But that smile faded a bit when she was asked how she was feeling today. Through a well-qualified interpreter, Sabrina Yohannes, Erkesso disclosed that she was concerned about a twist she suffered to her left ankle five days before traveling to Boston.
"I am very happy to be back in Boston, but shortly before I came here, I had a slight problem with my ankle, and for that reason I am not feeling so great," she said. "I twisted it during training, and it gave me a lot of pain. I actually have a lot of pain with it when I walk."
At this point she still plans to start the race and give her best to defend her title. Boston is a very important race to her.
"Not just in your life, but in general, winning a major marathon like this, is very important, you leave a legacy," she said. "Even if something should happen to you after that, you have marked your name down in history."
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By Chris Lotsbom
(c) 2011 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved, Used with Permission
BOSTON (15-Apr) -- Teyba Erkesso's smile is a city block wide whenever someone mentions the Boston Marathon. The 28-year-old Ethiopian won the 2010 edition of the Hopkinton-to-Boston race in 2:26:11, holding off a fast charging Tatyana Pushkareva by three seconds. Under a white Nike cap, her smile made her face gleam at the marathon's media session here today.
But that smile faded a bit when she was asked how she was feeling today. Through a well-qualified interpreter, Sabrina Yohannes, Erkesso disclosed that she was concerned about a twist she suffered to her left ankle five days before traveling to Boston.
"I am very happy to be back in Boston, but shortly before I came here, I had a slight problem with my ankle, and for that reason I am not feeling so great," she said. "I twisted it during training, and it gave me a lot of pain. I actually have a lot of pain with it when I walk."
At this point she still plans to start the race and give her best to defend her title. Boston is a very important race to her.
"Not just in your life, but in general, winning a major marathon like this, is very important, you leave a legacy," she said. "Even if something should happen to you after that, you have marked your name down in history."
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