Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 6:23 pm Post subject: ጥሩነሽ
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By Nick Mulvenney
BEIJING, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Ethiopia’ s world champion Tirunesh Dibaba ran the second fastest 10,000 metres of all time to win the first track gold medal of the Beijing Olympics on Friday.
The 23-year-old let others do the running for most of the race on a warm evening at the Bird’ s Nest before hitting the front just after the bell and sprinting home in an Olympic record 29 minutes 54.66 seconds.
“ It was a terrible race, the time was very fast, but thank God I did it,” Dibaba told reporters. “ It was really very tough but I am not afraid of any race.”
Ethiopian-born Elvan Abeylegesse, who had led for much of the latter part of the race, came home second to claim a first Olympic medal in athletics for a Turkish woman in 29.56.34.
Dibaba and Abeylegesse were only the second and third women to run under 30 minutes in the 10,000m after Chinese world record holder Wang Junxia, who set her mark in Beijing in 1993.
American Shalane Flanagan was finally awarded bronze in 30.22.22 after a confusing few minutes when officials tried to establish finishers from lapped runners.
“ Wow, I’ ll take that,” Flanagan said after being told of her time. “ I had food poisoning a couple of days ago— at least I don’ t know if it was food poisoning but it wasn’ t pretty— but they took good care of me and they got me rehydrated.”
Dibaba was the youngest world champion when she won the 5,000m in Paris in 2003 and the first women to win the 5,000 and 10,000 double at the 2005 championships in Helsinki.
“ I have repeatedly got the gold medal in world championships but that was nothing for me,” she said. “ I am hoping to break the world record maybe next year if the time and the place are right.”
Dibaba smashed the previous Olympic record of her cousin Derartu Tulu which she set in winning her second Olympic 10,000m gold in Sydney eight years ago.
Kenyan-born Lornah Kiplagat, who switched to the Netherlands after marrying her coach, set a fierce pace for the first two thirds of the race before Ethiopian Mestawet Tufa hit the front.
She could not sustain the pace, however, and dropped out of the race leaving Abeylegesse, who also switched nationalities because of marriage but is now divorced, in front with Dibaba tucked in behind her for the last five laps before the bell.
Dibaba’ s elder sister Ejegayehu, who won Olympic silver in Athens, faded after the final break and finished 14th.
Tirunesh Dibaba said last week she planned to run both long-distance events in Beijing but would only make her final decision after the longer race.
(Additional reporting by Gene Cherry; Editing by Ed Osmond)
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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 6:24 pm Post subject: ጥሩነሽ
Dibaba kicks late for 10,000m gold
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By Nick Mulvenney
BEIJING, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Ethiopia’ s world champion Tirunesh Dibaba ran the second fastest 10,000 metres of all time to win the first track gold medal of the Beijing Olympics on Friday.
The 23-year-old let others do the running for most of the race on a warm evening at the Bird’ s Nest before hitting the front just after the bell and sprinting home in an Olympic record 29 minutes 54.66 seconds.
“ It was a terrible race, the time was very fast, but thank God I did it,” Dibaba told reporters. “ It was really very tough but I am not afraid of any race.”
Ethiopian-born Elvan Abeylegesse, who had led for much of the latter part of the race, came home second to claim a first Olympic medal in athletics for a Turkish woman in 29.56.34.
Dibaba and Abeylegesse were only the second and third women to run under 30 minutes in the 10,000m after Chinese world record holder Wang Junxia, who set her mark in Beijing in 1993.
American Shalane Flanagan was finally awarded bronze in 30.22.22 after a confusing few minutes when officials tried to establish finishers from lapped runners.
“ Wow, I’ ll take that,” Flanagan said after being told of her time. “ I had food poisoning a couple of days ago— at least I don’ t know if it was food poisoning but it wasn’ t pretty— but they took good care of me and they got me rehydrated.”
Dibaba was the youngest world champion when she won the 5,000m in Paris in 2003 and the first women to win the 5,000 and 10,000 double at the 2005 championships in Helsinki.
“ I have repeatedly got the gold medal in world championships but that was nothing for me,” she said. “ I am hoping to break the world record maybe next year if the time and the place are right.”
Dibaba smashed the previous Olympic record of her cousin Derartu Tulu which she set in winning her second Olympic 10,000m gold in Sydney eight years ago.
Kenyan-born Lornah Kiplagat, who switched to the Netherlands after marrying her coach, set a fierce pace for the first two thirds of the race before Ethiopian Mestawet Tufa hit the front.
She could not sustain the pace, however, and dropped out of the race leaving Abeylegesse, who also switched nationalities because of marriage but is now divorced, in front with Dibaba tucked in behind her for the last five laps before the bell.
Dibaba’ s elder sister Ejegayehu, who won Olympic silver in Athens, faded after the final break and finished 14th.
Tirunesh Dibaba said last week she planned to run both long-distance events in Beijing but would only make her final decision after the longer race.
(Additional reporting by Gene Cherry; Editing by Ed Osmond)
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Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 11:29 pm Post subject: From EEDN!
http://www.eedn.org ጸሐፊውም ሆነ የኢትዮጵያ ልጆች ዒዔዲኖችን አመሰግናቸዋለሁ ሁልጊዜ መቼስ እዚያ ቤት ድንቅ ያገርሰዎች ሞልተውባታልና ::
ስለነገው ድግስ እስቲ ሃሳቦችን እናሳያቸው ልወገኖቻቺን ቤይጂምግ ውስጥ ተሰልፈው ለሚገኙት !!!
Tomorrow Sunday August 17 will be a great day for Ethiopian athletes. Early morning 7:30 am Beijing's time Ethiopians are expected to bring the second gold and our first silver and bronze a sweep in women marathon.
Ethiopia is represented by Gete(Getachene) last year she won here the New York Marathon, Berhane Adere and Dire Tune and as the day winds down in the night 10:45pm there will be one of the greatest 10,000mt race which will bring the two times Olympics winner Haile and the defender Kenenisa to shatter the Olympics record and come out first and second and our Sileshi Sihine another sweep.
Haile after withdrawing from the marathon for health reasons this race with Keneneisa might be his final in this distance and surely he will be a medal winner if not gold surely silver.
If all go well Ethiopia from its current 25 position in a medal stand will shoot up and Olympics history will be made this coming Sunday and all Africans will be proud of their Ethiopian sisters and brothers.
Go Haile, Go Kenenisa, Go Sileshi,
Go Gete/Getachene, Go Berhane, Go Dire !!!!
Tedla Asfaw Yechalal,
ወርቅሰው 1
ከ (ሰሐሊን )
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