Latest updates as Sir Mo Farah enters race for remaining time

David Weir feels refreshed and able to go once more as he prepares to sort out a twenty fourth consecutive London Wheelchair Marathon – with no plans to retire simply but.

While Sir Mo Farah reiterated Sunday would mark his final London Marathon look, Weir, 43, already has his sights set on reaching a quarter-of-a-century of appearances within the showpiece occasion.

The British para-athlete, an eight-time winner in London, produced a powerful victory within the Paris Marathon at first of April.

Having completed third in London in each 2021 and 2022, Weir stays decided to ship one other sturdy show again on house soil.

Here are all the beginning occasions for the day with the mini marathon already underway. The elite wheelchair, elite ladies’s and elite males’s will observe – together with everybody else!

8.50am BST: Mini London marathon

9.15am: Elite wheelchair races

9.25am: Elite ladies’s race

10.00am: Elite males’s race and mass begin

Millions of cell phones throughout the UK will emit a loud alarm and vibrate in a nationwide check of a brand new public alert system later this month.

The system is meant for use in life-threatening conditions together with flooding and wildfires. The message might be acquired on 4G and 5G cell phones, together with sound and vibration for as much as 10 seconds.

However, the timing will coincide with a number of massive public occasions together with Premier League matches and the London Marathon. Find out extra right here:

Tens of 1000’s of individuals working this yr’s London Marathon may very well be drenched in heavy rain for a lot of the race, forecasters have warned.

The Met Office has predicted a “very wet” Sunday within the capital with a better than 50% probability of downpours persisting by a nine-hour window from 7am till 4pm.

Jonathan Vautrey, a spokesman for the forecaster, mentioned runners will expertise temperatures of round 10C.

There might be tears when Sir Mo Farah turns away from Buckingham Palace on Sunday morning and dashes down The Mall one final time.

A remaining marathon for one of many all-time nice Britons, who has been humbled by the alluring distance, rising wiser with age as he bids to beat 26.2 miles for the primary time since October 2019 when he completed eighth in Chicago in 2:09:58 – 4:47 slower than his private finest.

Now 40 years of age, Farah appreciates merely stepping on the beginning line, following a late withdrawal final yr in London. Reflecting on a legendary profession, which included 4 Olympic gold medals and the British marathon file, Farah is savouring the journey.

The London Marathon returns in 2023 as one of many signature occasions on the distance-running calendar.

After a pandemic enforced shift in timing, this yr sees the race revert to its conventional springtime place.

Thousands of entrants will intention to finish the 26.2 mile course, taking within the sights and the sounds as they weave by a number of the metropolis’s most well-known streets.

And the elite racing crowns are set to be as hotly contested as ever, with sturdy fields named.

Here’s all the things you’ll want to know.