May 16th 2021 at 19:00:00 GMT +0300
On her third attempt, veteran World 5,000m champion Hellen Obiri is confident she will finally weather the storm and clinch the elusive Olympic gold medal in Tokyo in July.
The 31-year-old will launch her belated season on the global front in two weeks’ time in Qatar during the Doha Diamond League and she relishes the challenge, which she hopes will help her brush off the rust and gauge her fitness ahead of the big battle that is the Olympic Games.
Obiri, a mother of one, has made two attempts to clinch a gold medal at the Olympics without success. The best she got was a second place finish behind a specially talented fellow Kenyan Vivian Cheruiyot, five years ago in Rio. Her first shot at the ultimate prize was in London in 2012 where she finished eighth clocking a disappointing 4:16.57 over the shorter and explosive 1,500m distance.