![]() ![]() “You don’t have to show it only once,” he says. However, Cheptegei’s idea of greatness hinges not only on titles but on longevity. As well as the aforementioned accolades, he also owns an Olympic 10,000m silver from Tokyo 2020, the 2019 Diamond League title, Commonwealth Games 5,000m and 10,000m golds, and two World Cross Country Championships titles. It’s hard to argue that Cheptegei doesn’t already hold that status. “The dream about becoming one of the best athletes in the world.” ![]() “It’s the dream,” Cheptegei revealed in an interview on the Citius Mag podcast when speaking about his reason for getting up to run every morning. What more could you offer someone who has achieved so much in such a short career? And what is it that motivates the Ugandan to continue through the hard training to reach for further future goals? Yet in some ways it is apt for an athlete like Joshua Cheptegei, who at 26 years old has won Olympic gold in the 5000m, two world 10,000m titles and also set world records in both of those distances (12:35.36 in the 5000m and 26:11.00 in the 10,000m). What do you get the person who has everything? The question is often rolled out in pre-Christmas articles for shoppers stumped for gift ideas for their nearest and dearest.
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