By Robert Rutto
Beneath the French sky, at Stade Charléty’s glow on July 7, 2024, the evening air hummed with possibility.
The pacemakers dropped their jet wings and Faith Kipyegon, in Kenyan crimson, launched her heart across the track.
Lap one melted away in 46.1 seconds, fierce fire coursing through her veins, grace flowing, strides measuring the moon’s own pace.
As lap two quickly faded away (2:04.0), she heard the silent chant of generations — girls in Rift Valley villages, running barefoot toward their dreams.
The third lap evaporated in 60.8 seconds (3:04.8 for 1,200m) — a crescendo of earth and spirit. Her legs composing sonnets in rhythm with her pulse.
The (Jess) Hulls and the (Laura) Muirs of the world in her wake, but Kipyegon’s gaze fixed ahead, a solitary queen on a path carved by belief. And Faith.
At the bell, she whispered to the air: “This is my moment.” Then sprinted the final curve, where tartan meets legend.
As those gleaming seconds fell — three minutes, 49.04 seconds!!!
The crowd exhaled in unison: a record undone, history rewritten.
3:49.04— seven-hundredths of a second she shaved from her own former glory in Florence, June past.
Twelve women under four minutes—deepest race on the surface of the earth.
Yet Faith, untouchable, stood tallest in the stillness of time.
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