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Duncan Kibet Does His Best Shiva Impression in Rotterdam

By on Monday, April 6th, 2009 | No Comments

This weekend saw a lot of great racing, with at least 10 runners below 2 hours and 7 minutes in races around the world. Six of them were in Paris alone! Most impressive, of course, is Duncan Kibet and James Kwambai‘s 2:04:27 marathon in Rotterdam, where Kibet just edged Kwambai as both ran a time [...]

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Cross Country Running to be Considered for 2014 Olympics

By on Monday, March 23rd, 2009 | 6 Comments

Last September, Bekele, Tergat, and Gebrselassie wrote an open letter to the International Olympic Committee to try to get cross country reinstated into the Olympic Games. Cross country was originally removed after the 1924 Paris Games when unseasonably hot weather combined with the course going by an industrial chimney spewing noxious fumes led to 23 [...]

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Haile Gebrselassie Falls Short Of Marathon Record With 2:05:29

By on Friday, January 16th, 2009 | 2 Comments

Rain thwarted Haile Gebrselassie in his attempt to break his own world record in the marathon this morning in Dubai. He set the world record at 2:03:59 last year in Berlin, but went out a bit too fast in the first 10k in his attempt to break the record at Dubai in 2008. This year, [...]

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Haile Gebrselassie breaks 2 hours 4 minutes in the marathon!

By on Sunday, September 28th, 2008 | 4 Comments

A year ago, Haile Gebrselassie set the marathon world record in Berlin. This year, despite losing a week of training this month, he was able to break his own mark under near perfect weather conditions. “Today, I’m so, so, so happy. Everything was perfect today,” Gebrselassie said. “I had a small calf muscle problem and [...]

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This Week Last Year: Travel, Dogs & Marathon Records

By on Saturday, September 27th, 2008 | No Comments

It was a light week this week last year. I began the week by discussing how effective body weight exercises are when traveling. This was the final article of the month on training and travel in collaboration with Scott. I collected my best tips as well as what other people with the article about what [...]

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Will cross country racing return to the Olympics?

By on Friday, September 12th, 2008 | 3 Comments

Kenenisa Bekele, Haile Gebrselassie, and Paul Tergat have written an open letter to IOC President Jacques Rogge in an effort to return cross country running to either the Summer or Winter Olympics. Here’s a copy of that letter: AN OPEN LETTER to the President of the IOC, Mr. Jacques Rogge and president of the IAAF, [...]

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Kenenisa Bekele sets the world 2-mile record

By on Sunday, February 17th, 2008 | No Comments

Haile Gebrselassie set the mark for the indoor 2 mile world record in 2003 at 8:04.69. Yesterday, Kenenisa Bekele broke that mark by 0.34 seconds in Norwich Union Grand Prix in Birmingham to set the new 2 mile world record at 8:04.35. “It was not easy but I knew I could do it,” Bekele said. [...]

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Haile Gebrselassie may not run Olympic Marathon

By on Monday, January 21st, 2008 | 1 Comment

Last week, Haile Gebrselassie attempted to break his own world-record marathon time at the Dubai Marathon. He fell short by 27 seconds, but there can be little doubt that a man who now owns both of the two fastest marathon times in history is one of if not the best marathoner in the world right [...]

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