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Nairobi \u2014 Immediate former Olympics marathon champion Peres Jepchirchir says she has gotten over the disappointment of relinquishing her title at the Paris Games.<\/em><\/p>\n Jepchirchir says she is, above all, grateful to God albeit she would have loved to win a second consecutive Olympics crown.<\/p>\n “The weather was not good for us, especially for me. I was well prepared, competing in all those races ahead of the Olympics and even smashing the women-only record. The race was tough but I thank God I managed to…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nairobi \u2014 Immediate former Olympics marathon champion Peres Jepchirchir says she has gotten over the disappointment of relinquishing her title at the Paris Games. Jepchirchir says she is, above all, grateful to God albeit she would have loved to win a second consecutive Olympics crown. “The weather was not good for us, especially for me. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":178569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,19898,39182,4688,430,10575,257,12022,15620,21649,254,6675],"class_list":["post-178568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-grateful","tag-jepchirchir","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-losing","tag-news","tag-olympics","tag-paris","tag-soul","tag-south-africa-today","tag-title"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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