It was a run that would have brought him a medal at last year’s world championships in Osaka, but Haile Gebrselassie (pictured right) was not being so presumptuous. As he crossed the line in Hengelo, smiling and offering a thumbs-up for the cameras, he found himself in a strange position: on a track in The Netherlands where he had broken numerous world records.
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/ 9 November 2007
After Paula Radcliffe’s victory in the New York Marathon, 10 months after giving birth, other champion mums told Michael Phillips that having a baby can be a stepping stone to better things. Britain’s world record holder Radcliffe, running her first marathon in two years after taking a maternity break, beat Gete Wami after a race-long duel with a time of two hours, 23 minutes, nine seconds.