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Ethiopian distance runner, 1992–2015
Ethiopia · b. 1973
Won Olympic gold in the 10,000 metres in 1996 and 2000, eight World Championship titles, and set twenty-seven world records across distances from 2,000 metres to the marathon. He grew up on a farm near Asella and later became a businessman and president of the Ethiopian Athletics Federation.
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Simple. I ran to school. There was no other way to get to it, so I, all of us, ran to school each day. We lived in the countryside and had to go to the town to school. And as it happens with school, you'd get late. It was not easy being on time when you have to run 10km every morning. To reach at 8 am, I would start at 6.30 am, and there would be a punishment waiting for you, or worse, they would ask you to get your parents to school.
Recorded The Times of India, 25 October 2022 source
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