Who is Haile Gebrselassie
Haile Gebrselassie (Amharic: ኀይሌ ገብረ ሥላሴ, haylē gebre silassē; born 18 April 1973) is an Ethiopian retired long-distance track, road running athlete, and businessman. He won two Olympic gold medals over 10,000 metres and four World Championship titles in the event. He won the Berlin Marathon four times consecutively and also had three straight wins at the Dubai Marathon. Further to this, he won four world titles indoors and was the 2001 World Half Marathon Champion. Just like very few other great Ethiopians, Haile has repeatedly put Ethiopia's name to the world and many countries have showed great admiration to him outside of the sports world.Haile had major competition wins at distances between 1500 metres and the marathon, moving from outdoor, indoor and cr...
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- Age for me is just a number.
- I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.
- I find the business world hard.
- You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.
- I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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Botpsubstack: 2011's tailwind resulted in geoffrey mutai's current boston course record of 2:03:02. that was then the fastest marathon ever, almost a minute under haile gebrselassie's 2008 wr (2:03:59). since then, 13 men have bettered 2:03:02 on legal courses.Wbc_libraries: read of the day in the current issue of ‘runner’s world’ magazine, there are articles on haile gebrselassie, johnny hayes, and the importance of iron. read it on pressreader (
Oga_geeflex: "i'm lucky. the best possible place in the world for training is addis ababa, so i am home all the time except when i am racing. i like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business i run with my wife." — haile gebrselassie
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