by Paula Radcliffe believes that the potential of Keely Hodgkinson is “stratospheric” because the Olympic champion targets a “double blow” of success in 2025.
Hodgkinson won gold over 800 meters in Paris last summer and now put the goal of doing the same thing inside and outside in this year’s world championships in Nanjing and Tokyo respectively.
The 22 -year -old also aims at the outdoor world record for one minute 53.28 seconds established by the Czech athlete Jarmila Kratochvilova in 1983, as well as the world hall of Jolanda Ceplak of 1: 55.82 During From an event called the `Keely Klassic ” in Birmingham in February.
“She managed a dazzling ascent when she won this Olympic silver medal in Tokyo, then won several silver medals, which would have been a disappointment for many people,” said Radcliffe, who launched a New Podcast – The Paula marathon race club – to advise people who are preparing for the April London marathon, the AP news agency told.
“But it was built on this, managed all this pressure and really showed last year, it can approach this world record, which has been untouchable for so long.
“I think it’s this double blow if you wish, to get this outdoor world title to go with the Olympic title and see what it can also have time.
“I think the two come together. She knows what she is doing with Trev [coach Trevor Painter] But I am sure they will focus first on the championships because if it is in good shape to win there, it must be in good shape to challenge this record.
“She is so strongly and physically strong that we forget how young she is and that she is still growing and that there is enormous potential to come. It’s really, really exciting.
“And I think the great thing about Keely is that it is very normal, if I can say it. She is stratospheric in terms of realization, potential and talent, but she is also a 22 -year -old girl and really attracts this audience.
“If you ask my daughter to appoint two athletes, she will first say Keely and then Kat [Katarina Johnson-Thompson].
“Keely really shows that you can be cool, you can have fun with your friends, but you can focus and be a drummer in the world and have everything in this regard.”
The daughter of Radcliffe, 17, Isla will follow in her mother’s traces when she appears in the London marathon in April to collect funds for children with UK cancer, who supported her family after being diagnosed with a Rare form of 13 -year -old ovary cancer.
Isla, who has received treatment and is now without cancer, will direct her first marathon in an event that her mother has won three times and is perhaps one of the few beginners who will not need to listen to the Podcast 16 weeks that Radcliffe welcomed with the former Olympic marathon runer Chris Thompson.
Radcliffe, who heads his first marathons in a decade in Tokyo and Boston in March and April, said: “There will be advice and advice from us and other experts, but rather than saying” is “it is What you need to do. ” , It’s about being a community and a place where people can come and ask questions.
“I try to manage an arthritic foot and juggle everything I do, so I really have an idea of how the average person is preparing for a marathon, rather than being the elite and spoiled of which The whole day revolves around it.
“I can now really, really, really understand and admire all the people who prepare for the London marathon and others each year while trying to juggle a full -time job and families next to it.”
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