{"id":1478,"date":"2012-04-17T12:46:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T18:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2012-04-17T12:46:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T18:46:25","slug":"mutai-looks-to-defend-despite-recent-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/news\/mutai-looks-to-defend-despite-recent-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Mutai looks to defend despite recent illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1479\" style=\"width: 541px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mutai-2011.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1479\" class=\" wp-image-1479 \" title=\"Emmanuel Mutai - London 2011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mutai-2011.jpg\" alt=\"Emmanuel Mutai - London 2011\" width=\"531\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emmanuel Mutai - London 2011<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Emmanuel Mutai is determined to defend his London Marathon title on Sunday, despite contracting typhoid last month. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Kenyan missed some training after catching the fever a month ago, but he needs to set a good time to earn his place on his country&#8217;s Olympic team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had a fever a few weeks ago, and was under medication, but I am feeling better now and my recovery has been good. I will try my best,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old set a course record in winning the race last year.<\/p>\n<p>However, he is one of six Kenyan athletes, including world record holder Patrick Makau and world champion Abel Kirui, who are on a provisional list competing for the three places on the team at the London Games. Kenyan selectors will name their final three for the Olympics at the end of April.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The selection is challenging, but I think if I can finish in the top three here I will qualify,&#8221; said Mutai, who won last year with a time of two hours, four minutes and 39 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For me this will definitely be a tougher competition than last year because the field is so strong.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone has run a good time so I will have to perform at my best.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emmanuel Mutai is determined to defend his London Marathon title on Sunday, despite contracting typhoid last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,1,46],"tags":[91,333,555,578],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london","category-news","category-pre-event","tag-91","tag-emmanuel-mutai","tag-london","tag-marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}