Athletics icons Mo Farah and Haile Gebrselassie are locked in a bitter dispute just days away from the London Marathon
Marathon world record holder Haile Gebrselassie has reversed his decision to retire and will continue to run competitively.
Haile Gebrselassie’s dream of crowning a glorious career with victory in the 2012 London Olympics vanished on the streets of New York on Sunday.
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/ 30 January 2009
Phathisani Moyo catches up with legendary runner Haile Gebrselassie and his crew of future super athletes in Kenya.
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.
China on Monday unveiled ambitious plans to improve its capital’s heavily polluted air in time for the Olympics, including halting construction and heavy industry. Beijing’s Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau laid out a range of tough measures to cut back pollution, such as closing numerous petrol stations and even banning spray-painting.
Kenyan Martin Lel retained his London Marathon title in a fantastic men’s race on Sunday when the first three broke the course record and the first six finishers recorded personal bests. In the women’s race, German Irina Mikitenko won her first major marathon title on only her second outing over the distance.
Beijing’s air quality is ”better than we have feared” but the International Olympic Committee is prepared to postpone some long-duration events if pollution levels rise, IOC President Jacques Rogge said on Monday. Rogge said there had been similar delays in other Olympic games when there was too much wind or too much snow.
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/ 4 February 2008
Tyson Gay has heard stories that some athletes may wear face masks at the Beijing Olympics, hoping to fend off fumes in one of the world’s most polluted capitals. ”I hear a lot of people saying, ‘You’ll have to wear a mask, you’ll have to do this or that,”’ the 100m and 200m world champion said on Monday.