Defending champion
Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele retained his Olympic title in the
African-dominated men's 10,000 meters race at the Beijing Olympic
Games on Sunday. Bekele, the reigning world record holder,
clocked 27 minutes and 1.17 seconds to refresh the Olympic record created by
himself at the Athens Games four years ago.
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With her trademark blistering kick, Tirunesh Dibaba of
Ethiopia ran the second-fastest women's 10,000 meters ever
on Friday night to take the gold medal in the opening track
race of the Beijing Games. With a punishing 60-second
final lap, Dibaba crossed the line in 29 minutes 54.66
seconds, a time surpassed only by the 29:31.78 run by Wang
Junxia of China in 1993. Her victory, run on a relatively
cool and dry night, served as an early counterpoint to fears
that smog and heat would disrupt distance performances at
these Olympics.
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10,000 meters, 30 minutes
Tirunesh has won the 10,000 meters in an
Olympic record
29m, 54.66 seconds the second fastest time ever for a woman at that
distance.
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Olympic 10,000m record . The Ethiopian distance running icon finally adding the
Olympic crown to her three World titles over the distance as once
again she proved...
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After a gorgeous day, the best of
the Olympics so far, the women raced in 26C and slight cloud, and favourite
in the 10,000 metres, Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia raced to victory with her
trade-mark last lap sprint, relegating long time leader, Elvan Abeylegesse to
second place. But both women broke the 30 minute barrier...
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As a 10-year old in Bekoji,
Ejegayehou watched on TV as her cousin Derartu became the first Black African
woman to win Olympic gold. But she continued to concentrate on her studies at
the Bekoji elementary school (the same school attended by Derartu) until
early in 1998, when a physical education teacher spotted her in one of his
classes and urged her to run in the inter-school championships. Though she
had hardly trained, she won easily and was selected for the Arsi Province
team for the 1998 Oromiya Regional Championships.
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Ethiopian track stars are all set to
dominate the 5,000 and 10,000m events at the BeijingBut a punishing schedule, a
host of tough rivals and dubious air quality in the Chinese capital could
hamper bids at a double by the leading male and female long-distance
athletes, Kenenisa and Tirunesh. Bekele and Dibaba arrive in Beijing as the
acknowledged king and queen over the two distances and any failure on their
part to add to their already burgeoning medal collection would be an upset.
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Ethiopian star Tirunesh Dibaba
tends to dominate most discussions when it comes to women's long-distance
running. But Dibaba's team-mate Meseret Defar, the reigning Olympic and world
champion in the 5,000 metres and triple world indoor champion in the 3,000m,
comes to Beijing determined to tip the scales in her favour.
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Football's world governing body,
Fifa, has suspended the Ethiopian Football Federation with immediate effect.
Fifa's Emergency Committee made the decision after the Ethiopian Football
Federation (EFF) failed to comply with a roadmap agreed in February 2008
aimed at normalising the situation of the federation.
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Tadesse Tola of Ethiopia upset
Patrick Makau of Kenya in the men's NYC Half-Marathon on Sunday, and
Catherine Ndereba of Kenya won the women's race to solidify her standing as a
favourite in next month's Olympic marathon.
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Being the reigning two-time world
10000m champion, Dibaba will arrive in Beijing as the hot favourite for gold
in the 5000m, and 10000m maybe, if she decides to double up. Though losing
the world record, defending 5000m Olympic and world champion Defar will try
her best to avoid being dethroned in Beijing's "Bird Nest".
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Dire Dawa born 16 years-old Abdus
Ibrahim from Ethiopia did not need to wait for his second game to score a
goal. After just joining his team Toronto FC last month, Abdus scored the
only goal for his team in the 62nd minute of his first game played.
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Bekele, 26, has a remarkable
record of consistency, winning championship titles, setting world records and
dominating cross country running over the past six years. This year he
regained the world cross title to make it 12 wins in 13 attempts over the two
senior distances.
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BAHRAIN'S Maryam Yusuf Jamal and
Tareq Mubarak Taher sent out stern warnings to their Beijing Olympic Games
rivals last night, following dominant victories in their respective events at
the 'Gaz de France' Golden League meeting in Saint-Denis, Paris. Maryam
put in a splendid performance in the women's 1,500 metres, clocking under
four minutes and registering the world's second-fastest time this season.
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WORLD champion Maryam Yusuf Jamal
cruised to a women's 1,500-metre victory late last night to highlight an
impressive performance from Bahrain's top athletes at the 'Tsiklitiria 2008'
Grand Prix at the Olympic Stadium in Athens. Maryam ran a race of her own and
was virtually unchallenged as she made a fine season debut in her premier
event.
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When athletes reject oppression and leave the tyrannical country where
their nation is being oppressed and persecuted, champions and athletes
become heroes like all the other refugees who flee far from their
fatherlands in order to find peace of mind, freedom, real life and progress,
self-improvement and prosperity.
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Born, like so many great
athletes, in the highlands of Ethiopia, a member of the Oromo tribe, she grew
up tending cattle on the family farm, and was not even aware that she was an
especially fast runner until she started taking part in athletics
competitions in her teens.
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Dibaba, whose medal haul
includes three other golds and one silver in the world cross-country
championships, two world golds over 5000m in 2003 and 2005 and Olympic bronze
in the same distance at the Athens Games, has not ruled out doubling up in
Beijing.
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In an exclusive interview, Tolosa has denied knowingly taking any
banned substance. "I have not knowingly taken any banned substance," he
said. "I do not even know what morphine is before I was informed by the
Ethiopian Athletics Federation that I had taken the substance."
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Beyi, who took second overall in 2006, was the overall winning
runner with a time of 29:49 (4:48 pace), while his wife was the third
fastest female, finishing in 36:15 (5:50 pace).
After the race, Beyi stood with his arm around his wife and complimented
her for a strong performance.
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Ethiopian Ambesse Tolossa was disqualified as the men's champion because
the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency found he had a banned
substance in his system, according to a statement from the Honolulu
Marathon.
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Dire Tune ran 1 Hour World Record 18517m on Golden Spike 2008
Top distance runner Gete Wami will be fighting
to stay awake when she attempts to regain her BUPA Great Women's Run title
in Sunderland on Sunday. Last year she celebrated being crowned the first
World Major Marathons overall victor, her consistency earning her a bonus
of £256,000 (US dollars 500,000) in addition to the massive amount she
earned on the cash-rich circuit. READ MORE
Tirunesh Dibaba
of Ethiopia, who shattered the women's world record for the 5,000 meters in
Oslo, Norway, on Friday, June 6, will now be the hot favorite to win this
event at the Beijing Olympic Games in August. READ MORE
Tirunesh Dibaba of
Ethiopia broke the women's world 5,000-meter record by more than five
seconds with a time of 14 minutes, 11.15 seconds at the Bislett Games
on Friday. "I was not expecting such a record, but it is very important for
me," Dibaba said. "It was my dream to break a high quality world record.
God helped me today to achieve something special." READ MORE
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Defar sets Hayward Field
record in 5,000
June 9 2008
Although Defar fell off
the pace in the first half of the race, she shattered the Hayward Field
record of 15:06.53 set in 1985 by Mary Slaney. It was the third-fastest
women’s 5,000 on American soil.
KENENISA BEKELE narrowly
missed breaking his 10,000m world record at the Prefontaine Classic in
Eugene today. The three-time world champion was three seconds off world
record pace at 4km, passing through in 10:33 and an opening 5km split of
13:10 meant the Ethiopian would need to run negative splits for the record.
In the 5000m, Meseret Defar was never on the sort of pace to regain
her world record, which she lost on Friday night to Tirunesh Dibaba.
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Reigning 10,000 meters
world record-holder Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia, 25, is attempting a world
record in his first U.S. appearance. His current standard is 26:17.53, set
at Brussels, Belgium, three years ago.
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African 1500m champion Gelete
Burka sped home to a 61-second last-lap to defeat a very strong line-up in
the women’s 5000m. Burka, who won the Birmingham 3000m this February,
clocked a world-leading mark of 14:45.84 to defeat team-mates Meselech
Melkamu and Belaynesh Fikadu.
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Kenya, once reputed as the home to unbeatable
long-distance runners, has lost that reputation to neighbouring Ethiopia.
In addition, the country has lost some of its heavyweights to Europe,
United States and Qatar in recent years. READ MORE
I tried to run away from her for
the last miles, but she's very strong," the 22-year-old Ethiopian said
through a translator. "I was confident when I was not able to run away from
her, I could save myself for the final kick." Tune won in her first try at
Boston. Biktimirova finished in 2:25.27, with 2006 champion Rita Jeptoo third
in 2:26:34.
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Fatuma Roba did not take the
usual path to becoming a living legend in the sport of marathon running. She
was a pioneer, becoming Africa's first ever female to take the sport's most
prestigious prize at Atlanta in 1996 when she won the Centennial Olympic
Marathon. Who would have thought it, when she had only a 2:39 PR coming into
the Olympic year!
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As inspiration goes it
takes some beating. Only minutes after becoming the most successful woman
in the history of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships Tirunesh
Dibaba stood in the flapping white tent that served as a media/athlete
mixed zone in Edinburgh’s Holyrood Park and insisted it wasn’t her own
victory that had painted the broad, joyful smile on her mud-spotted
22-year-old face. READ MORE
Derartu Tulu is aiming to
add her name to the distinguished list of Olympic and World 10,000 metres
champions to have won the BUPA Great Caledonian Run. Tulu starts as favourite to become the first
woman to collect the top honours on the return of the meeting to the
Scottish capital, which is being run over a new city centre course.
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When Seboka first won the race in
2005, she clocked a course record 2:35:03. The following year she improved it
to 2:33:15, which was also an Indian all-comers’ record. Seboka’s absence in
2007 was eventually capitalised by China’s Yang Feng-Xia. Being the first
Asian runner to win the race, she clocked a moderate 2:36:16.
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Countrywoman Erkesso is riding a wave of successes this year on the American
road tour with victories in New Orleans at the Crescent City Classic 10K, the
Vancouver Sun Run (10K), and at the Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Miler
where she set fastest ever 10 mile by a woman in an all-women's race with
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In
the Boston Marathon's first 103 years, only four have had the chance - and
all fell short. It takes speed, strength, talent, toughness, nerve, and, oh
yes, more than a little luck. Four straight wins. Four consecutive laurel
wreaths. That's what Fatuma Roba will be running after when she toes the line
in Hopkinton at noon tomorrow.
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This time it was Teyba Erkesso, a 24-year old Ethiopian who blistered a
strong international field in a time of 51 minutes, 44 seconds. She led for
virtually the entire final six miles and finished 1 minute, 14 seconds ahead
of runner-up Tatyana Petrova of Russia (52:58), who trains locally in
Germantown, Md.
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Teyba Erkesso, a
24-year old Ethiopian, blistered a strong international field with her
winning time of 51:44 in the Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run in West
Potomac Park on Sunday, April 1. She led most of the final six miles and
finished with a gap of 1:14 minutes on runner-up Tatyana Petrova of Russia
(52:58), who trains locally in Germantown, MD and placed eighth in the 2005
LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon (2:31:03).
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The younger Dibaba, who was third in
the 5,000 at the Athens Games, finished in 14 minutes, 27.42 seconds _ 5 1/2
seconds less than she needed to set the world mark at the Reggie Lewis track
two years ago. Ejegayehu Dibaba, who won silver in Athens in the 10,000, was
second, 42 seconds behind.
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Seboka, 21-years-old, did not
give up and maintained her pace till she bravely caught the leader in the
final part of the race. At the end she was a clear winner with a personal
best timing of 2:35:03, well ahead of compatriot Aman (2:36:19) and Russian
Irina Timofeyeva (2:36:42).
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When she crossed the finish line ahead
of the Atlanta Olympic field in 1996, Fatuma Roba was an unknown soldier from
Ethiopia. Now, after running unchallenged in a repeat victory Monday at the
102nd Boston Marathon, the petite Roba is being dubbed "The African Queen."
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Thirty-six years after Bikila
became the first black African to win any Olympic title with victory in the
men's marathon in Rome, Roba won the 42.195 kilometer race through the
streets of Atlanta in 2 hours, 26 minutes, .05 seconds. Roba, the first
African woman to win a medal in the marathon since the event became part of
the Olympics in 1984, dropped to her knees and kissed the track after
crossing the finish line to the cheers of a near-capacity crowd at
85,000-seat Olympic Stadium.
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Kutre Dulecha, winner of the
Amsterdam women’s race, is remarkably the reigning World Indoor 1500m
champion. The 27-year-old was also running the second marathon of her career
where she made a massive improvement on her 2:32:29 5th place finish in the
Hamburg Marathon, by slicing a massive 2 minutes and 23 seconds off her
personal best time in Amsterdam.
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Derartu Tulu became the first Ethiopian woman to win the BUPA Great North Run
with an emphatic victory. The two-time Olympic 10,000metres champion left her
rivals behind after nine and a half miles to win the world’s biggest
half-marathon in one hour, seven minutes and 33 seconds. Behind her there was
a close battle for second place which eventually was claimed by Tulu’s
compatriot Worknesh Kidane in one hour, eight mins and nine secs.
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Two-time Olympic 10,000m champion
Derartu Tulu is in line to make her major championship marathon debut after
making the squad, while there are a lot of fresh talent throughout the men’s
squad as Ethiopia begins life without its established stars.
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In stark contrast to the fortunes
of men’s 1996 Olympic Champion Thugwane who dropped out of the race, Fatuma
Roba the women’s Olympic winner in Atlanta broke away from Russia's Alevtina
Ivanova after 30Km and ran alone for the rest of the way to take an easy win
in the women’s race in 2:28:05.
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Ethiopian KutreDulecha snatched victory on the line in
the world cross country women's short course race today after a finish in
which the three medallists shared the same time. Dulecha, the
world 1,500 metres bronze medallist, made the early pace in the 4.18km
race on the second and final day of the championships in a leading group
comprising Moroccan Zahra Ouaziz, Kenyan Margaret Ngotho and Britain's
Paula ...
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Doctors at Wolfson Children's
Hospital are working to save the life of an infant girl from Ethiopia. She
was accompanied by Hilda Ettedgui, the wife of Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon Jose
Ettedgui...
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The wars in Africa are
wars of greed. The Western elites do not care for Africa or its people. It
is after African Wealth, and a desire to keep it resources going to West
instead of Africa.
