She hasn’t competed all season.
Now Olympic Queen Sivan Hasan has clocked three distances in the water – again.
She won Olympic gold in both the 5000 and 10,000 meters in Tokyo and the bronze in the 1500.
But she has no intention of trying to get the same treble at the World Cup.
It’s very unusual for someone to opt for a season debut at a major tournament, but anyone who has seen this 29-year-old Dutch woman with roots in Ethiopia knows what she is capable of.
Recently at the World Championships in Doha, she took two golds in the unique 1500 and 10,000 metres.
In Tokyo, you bet three golds and almost succeeded.
They are now recorded for 1,500, 5,000 and 10,000 metres at Eugene.
– But she won’t run all the distances. After the weekend, we’ll make a decision on the branches, coach Tom Robery says according to US running site Letsrun.com.
as he says it Sifan Hassan The start of the competition was quiet and late, given the frenetic activity last year.
“I’m clean”
Its lack of participation in the competition so far this year is largely due to the fact that the Ramadan fast came late this year.
– This means that the dose of training has gone down and that we had to cancel the competitions that were planned in WC.
Sevan Hasan got his big break after joining now suspended coach Alberto Salazar and the Nike Oregon Project, also closed.
Today, she is the best female long-distance runner in the world, but also fast enough for 1500 metres.
Her current coach Tom Robery has worked closely with Alberto Salazar, who was suspended for four years for violating doping rules.
This made her often asked, but Sivan Hassan was never caught in any doping controls and responded to the accusations immediately after coach Salazar was suspended in the middle of the Doha World Cup.
– I am clean and always will be, she said that time.
– And how do people think I cheat? Don’t they think I’ll take the test? No, it’s just hard work behind it.