体坛英语新闻：Kenya's Cheruiyot coys on doubling at London Olympics

NAIROBI, April 3 (Xinhua) -- Double world champion Vivian Cheruiyot will not rush to confirm her program for the Olympics despite pressure from Athletics Kenya and her fans.

Cheruiyot, who hit the jackpot in 2011 winning in all the events she entered including three gold medals at the World cross country and World championships, is leaving it open until early July to make up her mind.

"It is too early to set my target. I have not run in any track competition this season. I have to be careful not to burn out early and that is why I have to wait and see how my body reacts when I launch my track season in Doha next month," said Cheruiyot on Tuesday in Eldoret.

"It is possible to run double, but first we have to wait to see the Kenyan trials (in June) and who else qualifies. But I fear nobody and when I make up my mind, it will be for the best of everyone. I want to win medals for Kenya."

However, Cheruiyot has something up her sleeves that is keeping her busy right now. She is busy making plans for her traditional engagement to her sweetheart Moses Kiplagat Kirui.

The two are set to formalize their union on April 14 in Eldoret.

"I will be having a ceremony at my place where I will be introducing my husband to my parents. It is after the function that I will be talking athletics," she added.

Cheruiyot is among the elite athletes that organizers of the Doha Diamond League meeting have invited for the event.

"I will run in Doha that is certain. But for now, it is important to focus on my family matters first," said Cheruiyot.

Cheruiyot will be running the 3000 meter race in Doha with compatriot and world indoor 800m champion Pamela Jelimo taking off the blocks in the 800m race.

Throw in another world indoor champion from Istanbul Genzebe Dibaba of Ethiopia at 3,000m and a special appearance of double Olympic winner Kenenisa Bekele at 3000m and it becomes toxic for the faint hearted.

It will be Bekele's Doha debut and also first early season meeting since 2009. Also confirmed for Doha are Sudan's two-time world indoor 800m champion Abubaker Kaki, who was a silver medallist last month in Doha.

He will battle against Kenyan Alfred Kirwa Yego, 2007 world champion and Moroccan record holder Amine Laalou. In the women's 800m, 22-year-old Indian record holder (1:59.17) and Daegu semifinalist Tintu Luka will take on Jelimo.

But Cheruiyot's concern should be with the resurgence of Tirunesh Dibaba after a long struggle with injury. Dibaba's 29:54. 66 Olympic record is the third fastest 10,000m time ever run, while her 14:11.15 for 5,000m, set earlier in 2008 in Oslo, remains the world record.

She was the first person to win the distance double at the world championships when, after taking double world cross country gold earlier in the same year, she achieved the track double in Helsinki in 2005, leading Ejegayehu to bronze in both races at the tail end of an Ethiopian sweep.

Bekele joined Tirunesh Dibaba in the rare company of distance double world champions in 2009 and Cheruiyot made it there in 2011.

The Kenyan and her compatriots should be Dibaba's chief rivals in London, along with Meseret Defar if she attempts to double there, which is a possibility.

Dibaba, however, has already made up her mind about pursuing her third global distance double and defending her two Beijing crowns.

"If it's God's will and I'm healthy, I'm running both," Dibaba told Ethiopia Athletics Federation. Enditem