Meb Keflizighi, event ambassador of the Tata Mumbai Marathon (TMM) started off the press meet with elite international athletes at the marathon’s press centre at Mumbai Marathi Patrakar Sangh at Azad Maidan in SoBo on Friday evening.

The global running icon, Mebrahtom or Meb as he’s known around the world, now retired, is an Olympic medallist and a New York City Marathon and Boston Marathon winner. The runner based in Tampa (Florida) was born in Eritrea. “His life is the stuff of movies” said marathon commentator Tim Hutchins at the press meet. With that shout out to Bollywood over, Meb took some questions, stating that the TMM 2024 boasted an “amazing, outstanding field with a lot of fast guys. Now it is time to hydrate and enroute use the crowd to cheer you on and help you finish strong.”