Athletes who suffered political persecution face an anxious wait to find out if their asylum claims are successful and they can resume their careers By Rick Maese The Guardian Genet Lire locked herself in a bathroom stall at Dulles International Airport and hid. The clock was ticking. If she was found, she would have to
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Athletes who suffered political persecution face an anxious wait to find out if their asylum claims are successful and they can resume their careers By Rick Maese The Guardian Genet Lire locked herself in a bathroom stall at Dulles International Airport and hid. The clock was ticking. If she was found, she would have to
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By IAAF Ethiopia’s Aberu Mekuria won the Scotiabank Ottawa Marathon on Sunday (24) with the second-fastest time in the history of the IAAF Silver Label Road Race, while compatriot Girmay Birhanu won the men’s race in what was his fourth marathon in seven months. Mekuria took almost half a minute off her PB to win
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World indoor champion Genzebe Dibaba was named sportswoman of the year at the Laureus World Sports Awards in Shanghai on Wednesday (15). The middle-distance runner became the first sportsperson from Ethiopia to win an award in any category at the prestigious event, which began in 2000. Dibaba was rewarded for her 2014 season in which
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Team Ethiopia is confident of a better IAAF World Cross Championships in Guiyang, China on Saturday to improve on the junior men 8km individual title they won last time in Poland. Their squad of 24 that is a mix of experience and newcomers is ready to take the battle to the other 50 nations taking
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Ethiopia’s Endeshaw Negesse held off world and Olympic champion Stephen Kiprotich of Uganda to win Sunday’s Tokyo Marathon, part of the six-race World Marathon Majors series. The 26-year-old Negesse took the tape in 2 hours, 6 minutes flat ahead of Kiprotich (2:06:33) and defending champion and race record-holder Dickson Chumba of Kenya, who came in
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Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba ran the third world indoor record * of her career when she clocked 14:18:86 for 5000m at the XL-galan meeting in Stockholm, an IAAF Indoor Permit meeting, on Thursday (19). Dibaba took more than five seconds off the previous mark of 14:24:37 set by her compatriot Meseret Defar on the same track
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Mumbai Mirror By Vivek Ajinkya Mumbai’s streets have served as a hallowed battleground for Kenyan and Ethiopian marathoners over the years. Ever since its inception in 2004, the Mumbai Marathon has somehow always turned into an African slugfest. The Kenyans, had, for long, dominated the feature men’s race, while Ethiopia’s longdistance women’s runners had held
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Mumbai Mirror By Vivek Ajinkya Mumbai’s streets have served as a hallowed battleground for Kenyan and Ethiopian marathoners over the years. Ever since its inception in 2004, the Mumbai Marathon has somehow always turned into an African slugfest. The Kenyans, had, for long, dominated the feature men’s race, while Ethiopia’s longdistance women’s runners had held
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When Meseret Defar and Bernard Lagat compete at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston on 7 February, both will be marking milestones in their careers at the IAAF Indoor Permit meeting. Two-time Olympic champion Defar will be competing for the first time since the birth of her daughter in June. Her last race was at
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