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# Born to run: Haile Gebrselassie interview
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## Haile Gebrselassie's dominance of long-distance running has put Ethiopia
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on the map. As he eyes more gold in 2012, many of his compatriots want him to
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run the country, too
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![Haile Gebrselassie][1]
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Haile Gebrselassie at his home in Addis Ababa Photo: Robin Hammond
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![Gebrselassie winning gold in the 10,000m, Sydney 2000][2]
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Gebrselassie winning gold in the 10,000m at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, ahead
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of Kenya's Paul Tergat Photo: Getty Images
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![Gebrselassie with his wife, Alem, and their children][3]
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Gebrselassie at home in 2007 with his wife, Alem, and their children Photo:
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Getty Images
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![Gebrselassie inspires children while training in Addis][4]
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Gebrselassie could live anywhere, but has remained in Addis, inspiring local
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children while training amid the city?s shanty towns Photo: Robin Hammond
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[![Jim White][5]][6]
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By [Jim White][7] 7:00AM GMT 17 Mar 2011
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[Comments][8]
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On a plateau high above the city of Addis Ababa, at the top of Mount Entoto,
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the reason Ethiopia has long dominated distance running is writ large. It is
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here that champions are made.
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All you can see, along the hardened mud paths that criss-cross wide, open
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grassland, is people running. In Addis, everybody runs everywhere: women
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sprint to the communal well to collect water, schoolchildren skip to school,
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men trot by on their daily search for work.
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The best of them, the athletes destined for the world"s tracks, come up to
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Entoto every morning before daybreak. Dozens of them hurtle past at high
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speed.
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Today, in the middle of them, is the tiny figure of the greatest Ethiopian
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athlete of them all, the manifestation of a nation's obsession.
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Haile Gebrselassie, 5ft 5in and the fastest distance runner ever, could train
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anywhere in the world, but he chooses to do so here. And he has invited me up
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the mountain to learn the secret of his dazzling, 19-year domination of his
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sport.
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## Related Articles
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* [Olympics: ticket guide][9]
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15 Mar 2011
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* [Gebrselassie in retirement U-turn][10]
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14 Nov 2010
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* [Addis Ababa's big match fever][11]
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10 Dec 2010
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"This place," he says as he bends and stretches in preparation for his morning
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constitutional, "is like nowhere else. Here, it all starts."
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He has brought with him to the top of Entoto a young Olympic hopeful. Part of
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a mentoring programme run by Gebrselassie"s sponsor, G4S (an international
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security measures company), 25-year-old Chatchai Butdee is a boxer from
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Thailand and has come to Addis hoping to pick up some tips to propel him to
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the 2012 Games in London.
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G4S has signed up 14 young athletes (the "G4S 4 teen") from all over the globe
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and, in addition to providing financial support, sends them for week-long
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tutorials in Addis, hoping that some of Gebrselassie's winning mentality might
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rub off.
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They represent many disciplines - there is a Colombian BMX rider, a Guatemalan
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sailor, an Estonian discus thrower and a South African table-tennis player -
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and all benefit from one-on-one time with the great runner; he may not know
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much about boxing, but he knows how to train and how to win.
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Gebrselassie has wasted little time in preparing a programme for the boxer to
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follow, and the morning after he arrives from Bangkok Butdee has been invited
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to join his host for a jog round the plateau.
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Gebrselassie sets off at a pace deliberately designed not to intimidate, but
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appearances can be deceptive.
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We are 10,000ft above sea level, and for those unused to running at such
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heights the physical demands are amplified; after no more than a dozen paces
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the chest begins to feel as if it has been placed in a metal casket that is
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being hit repeatedly by a sledgehammer.
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Within a hundred yards the lungs are burning, the ears screaming, the throat
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roaring. There simply doesn't seem to be enough oxygen to go around.
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Gebrselassie, though, is blissfully unaffected. He skips over the ground, his
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tiny feet pecking at the earth, apparently barely touching the surface.
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He has been running at altitude all his life, and his body has built up a
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natural resilience that gives him an advantage anywhere else he runs.
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For Butdee, though, acclimatisation seems a long way off. After no more than
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half a mile he is gasping, barely able to look anyone in the eye.
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"I go off now for a run," Gebrselassie says, raising his voice above the sound
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of wheezing. "While I"m gone, you do five more laps."
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His diminutive frame quickly disappears from view into the surrounding
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woodland. The moment Gebrselassie is out of sight, Butdee shakes his head.
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There is no way he is going to do any more physical activity this morning, he
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says. "It"s impossible. I cannot see how he can run here. He must be
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Superman."
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Ninety minutes later - by which time Butdee has recovered his breath -
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Superman returns. He has run 18 miles, he says, up to the top of the adjacent
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mountain.
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It is only just after 7.30am and he has already run further than most of us
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commute. Yet his brow is not even glistening, he looks so fresh he appears to
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have taken a taxi. "A good start," he grins. "Now, let's get on with the day."
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Haile Gebrselassie was born to run. Brought up one of 10 children in the hills
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of Asala, 160 miles south of Addis, from the age of six he ran six miles to
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school and back every day.
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That was in the dry season. When the rains came and he was no longer able to
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take a shortcut across a riverbed, it was 7½ miles.
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His father, like everyone in the area, was a subsistence farmer who regarded
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running as a necessity, not a possible career choice.
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But Haile, inspired by the achievements of his countryman Miruts Yifter, who
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won the Olympic 10,000m in 1980, grew obsessed - he stole his father"s
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transistor radio to listen to commentary of Yifter's Moscow win.
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He was never too interested in school work, and Yifter opened his eyes to the
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possibilities of running professionally.
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He won his first official race aged eight, ran his first marathon at 15, was
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selected for his region, then the national team, and at 18 was discovered by
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the Dutch former distance runner Jos Hermens, who remains his coach and agent.
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In 1992, under Hermens"s tutelage, he announced his presence internationally
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by winning both the 5,000m and 10,000m in the World Junior Championships in
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Seoul, aged 19.
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From then on he began to dominate the 10,000m, winning two Olympic titles and
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four World Championships (the first in 1993), and breaking 27 world records,
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despite having suffered all his life from asthma.
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As he entered his thirties, he increased his distance and moved from the track
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on to the street, finishing first in four successive Berlin marathons (he set
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the current world record for the marathon, a time of two hours, three minutes
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and 59.28 seconds, in Berlin in 2008).
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The apparent ease of his victories - always a grin as he crossed the finish
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line - turned him into the poster boy for pavement plodders everywhere: the
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man who made the most demanding of pursuits look effortless.
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Not that it came without work. His weekly training encompassed more than 100
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miles of hard running, fuelled by a colossal intake of grain, vegetables,
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fruit and lean meat, none of which appears to hang around on his entirely fat-
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free frame.
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Then, last October, after limping out of the New York marathon when a build-up
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of fluid locked his right knee, he announced his retirement from the sport he
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had come to define.
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Even for Superman, the marathon is physically unforgiving and he was now 37.
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It was time to move on, let someone else take his place. A couple of days
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later, though, like a jogging Sinatra, he rescinded the decision, telling the
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world he had been misunderstood.
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"It was crazy," he says now. "I come home to Addis and everyone is crying. My
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kids, my father, my wife. I say, why are you crying? I only meant I was
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retiring from the race. I tell them, of course I run on. Now I want to win in
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London 2012."
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The outcry in Addis was understandable. Gebrselassie is not merely renowned
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across his homeland for his athletic longevity, he is also his country"s
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finest ambassador, the man who puts his nation on the map every time he runs.
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More to the point, wherever he runs, he always returns to his roots. After
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earning millions from his sport (his appearance fees for attending a city
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marathon start at $250,000), he has never sought to live in Monaco, Milan or
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Miami.
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His home has always been Addis, these days in a sprawling marble palace he
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shares with his wife, Alem, and four children: daughters Eden, 13, Melat, 11,
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and Batiy, nine, and five-year-old son Nathan, known as Natty.
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The house is in a suburb next to the forest that rings the city, so close to
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the wild that when he comes home late at night he sees hyenas rummaging
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through his dustbins.
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After his morning run, Gebrselassie heads to his office on the eighth floor of
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the Alem Building (named after his wife).
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His business empire employs some 600 people and his interests range from
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coffee (his beans, he insists, are the world's most flavoursome) to motor
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trading.
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He has the sole licence to import Hyundai cars into this part of Africa, and
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about 35 brand new Korean hatchbacks are currently stored on his front drive
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while he waits for a showroom to be built.
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He also runs a successful property business with Alem, which has financed the
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building of seven of Addis's tallest buildings. All of which has helped make
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him one of Ethiopia"s richest men.
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"It is not my duty to spend my money in my country," he says, "but it is what
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I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest."
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His brother, Assefa, largely runs the businesses, but Haile is more than a
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figurehead, he makes decisions on a daily basis. And there is a philanthropic
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edge to his ambition.
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He has built two primary schools in Ethiopia and is heavily involved with the
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Great Ethiopian Run, Africa's largest mass athletics event, which works with
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NGOs and the UN to inform people in his homeland about health matters and the
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importance of education.
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"I love this country, it is amazing," he says. "But it is very poor. I have
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seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I
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couldn't "t work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.
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"When I went to a hotel in Europe, I was amazed by the luxury. The average
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income is $200 a head here. Do you think Americans could live on $200 a year?
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Impossible. But they do here. The Ethiopian people are incredible."
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The affection he feels for his countrymen and women is reciprocated. Wherever
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he drives through the chaotic streets of Addis, people wave, smile, laugh.
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Taxi drivers holler, traffic cops salute him. When he parks, a gaggle of
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schoolchildren surround the car, girls squealing at him as if he were a member
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of a boy band.
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His presence seems to cheer everyone up. They all love him because his global
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success contrasts with the usual wider image of Ethiopia as a place hamstrung
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by debt and poverty.
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Gebrselassie makes their country look good. So much so, not a day goes by when
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he is not pestered by those wanting him to do more than just put a spring in
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the collective step.
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During the course of only one day with him, at least four people stop and ask
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when he is going to stop running and enter politics. Haile, they tell him, we
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need you to run the country like you run a marathon: properly.
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"Yes, I believe we could do better," he says of his nation"s politicians. "I
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believe we can build on our character, I believe we can do more. But then I am
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very impatient.
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"I have run my whole life on the clock. Now in business, I have to do things
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not tomorrow, not today, but yesterday. If I rule this country one day, I will
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want it to run with me. Very fast."
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Passing time with Gebrselassie is an exhausting business. He does everything
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at breakneck pace. He has just completed a tower block in downtown Addis 18
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months ahead of schedule, sometimes turning up on site in the middle of the
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night to encourage the night shift to work harder.
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When he sits down to breakfast, he is standing up again before the first
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splash of coffee has hit his cup, dashing off to his next appointment, urging
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his guests to follow.
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He drives us in his 4x4 to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church of St Mary in Entoto,
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to which he donated his Olympic gold medals. Set just under the mountain, in a
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eucalyptus forest (the trees were imported from Australia in the 1920s), this
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is a place of pilgrimage for many in Addis.
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When we arrive, women in bare feet are prostrating themselves on its steps,
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howling out their devotion. It was here that he married Alem, his childhood
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sweetheart, in a ceremony that had thousands lining the streets to catch a
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glimpse of the couple.
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It was here his children were christened. And it is here he comes to prepare
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psychologically for big races.
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"Before I went to Atlanta and Sydney [where he won 10,000m gold in 1996 and
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2000], I came to this church and prayed," he says, as the priest unlocks the
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safe where his medals are kept.
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"I promised to give of my best, and that if I won I would give my medals to
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the church. When you promise something, you must fulfil it. These medals don"t
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belong to me. They belong to the church."
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Gebrselassie is not suggesting there was anything divine in his success, but
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attributes it to more earthly reasons.
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"I was successful because I worked harder than anyone else.
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"That is what I want to tell this young athlete when he asks me for advice,"
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he says, pointing to Butdee.
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"You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything
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maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you
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that.
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"It is not enough just to win the race, it is how you handle the lessons, how
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you improve. Some athletes, after they have won something, because they are
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not disciplined, they don"t make the most of it."
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Is it a question of being hungry?
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"I am not hungry for success, I am hungry for running. I am disciplined.
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Sometimes when I meet people and they say, "What do I have to do to be like
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you?"
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I say, "Look, sport has to come from inside." You can't look at someone and
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say, "I want to be like you." The desire has to be yours."
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He takes the medals from their cases and threads them over Butdee"s neck. The
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boxer laughs and punches the air. Then he has his picture taken with them.
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"You will win one of these yourself one day, if you believe," Gebrselassie
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tells him. "And I will win another in London, too. These two are lonely. They
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need a friend."
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Later, Butdee says that of all the things Gebrselassie did with him during his
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trip to Addis, the training, the motivational talk, the sight of his splendid
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house, it was wearing those medals that was the most inspirational moment. Yet
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Gebrselassie himself seems unmoved by the gongs.
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"I"m not motivated by possessions or money," he says. "I just love running. I
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do lots of things, but nothing compares to running. Like real estate, once you
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have built a building there's nothing else to do, it's just collecting money.
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"You import a car, then sell it, then import another: where is the excitement?
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With running, every day is different. Every run is different. When I run 10km
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on the treadmill, always I check the time. Sometimes it's 28 minutes something
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and I'm not happy. Then I run 27 something and I'm smiling. If the whole world
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ran, it would be a better place."
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Is that what he would do, then, if he were ever to become his country"s
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leader: make sure that his entire cabinet joined him for his morning
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constitutional?
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"No," he grins. "If I were prime minister, I would send everyone to school.
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Education is all. That is what I would love to do for this country: educate
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it."
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It is quite a task. With 39 per cent of the population living below the
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internationally recognised poverty line, survival is more of a priority than
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schooling; fewer than 58 per cent of pupils make it into secondary education.
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Small wonder that no more than 40 per cent of 15-year-old girls are literate.
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Gebrselassie would like the whole of Ethiopia"s youth to have some of the
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opportunities his wealth has brought his children, who attend the
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international school in Addis.
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They get taken there in a Hyundai; there is no running six miles to lessons
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for his kids, which explains why none of them shares his pencil-thin physique
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(or indeed his love of athletics).
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They speak American-accented English in the home and at night regale him with
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the stories and pictures they have produced at school.
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He would love to be the man who delivers such an educational charge to his
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country. But the thing that holds him back from entering politics, he says, is
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that he fears he will lose his most singular advantage: his unequivocal
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popularity.
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"My friend says to me: "Hey, Haile, if we choose you as our president, then I
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might have to kill you." I say, why?
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He says, "Because you are an athlete, you are my friend. When you become a
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politician, it will change." So I say, but if you like me why do you want to
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kill me? He says, "because I hate every politician. So I will have to hate
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you." How crazy is that?"
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He says it may yet happen, he may well answer the growing calls to leadership.
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Though he has much else to do first, from building a cinema and completing the
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hotel complex he is constructing in his home province to winning gold in
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London, a city whose marathon he has never conquered, despite three attempts.
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To complete all he wishes to achieve, he says, every morning he will be up on
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Entoto before daybreak, running.
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"I could not run my business without running. If I have a problem in my
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business, I don"t sleep on it, I go for a run. And by the time I have finished
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running, I have thought of a solution," he says. "For me it is very simple. I
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have to run. If I stop, I die."
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**Haile Gebrselassie is a mentor to the athletes of the G4S 4 teen programme,
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helping 14 young athletes achieve their dream to compete in the 2012 Olympics
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in London [g4ssport.com][12]**
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[![London 2012 Olympics][31]][21]
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## [THE OLYMPICS BLOG »][32]
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[ ![Simon Hart][33] ][34]
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** [Simon Hart][34] **
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* [Tax rules are depriving UK fans of Usain Bolt preview][34]
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** [Jacquelin Magnay][36] **
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* [My Hay Festival speech on ethics in sporting events][36]
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[ ![Tanni Grey-Thompson][37] ][38]
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** [Tanni-Grey Thompson][38] **
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* [Paralympic World Cup can help London 2012 be catalyst for success][38]
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Olympic features
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[![London 2012 Olympics: 20 questions with Nicole Cooke][39]][40]
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### [20 Questions][40]
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Team GB road cyclist **Nicole Cooke **talks to Telegraph Sport
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### [Olympics countdown][41]
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[![][42]][41]
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**426 days to go**
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> Theodosius II ordered the destruction of all Greek temples in AD 426. <p>
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### [Send us your view on the Olympics][43]
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Olympic experts and guides
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### [Olympic Columnists][44]
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[**Steven Redgrave**][45]
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> <a href="http:/www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/columnists
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/chris-hoy/">**Chris Hoy**** **
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> <a href="http:/www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/columnists/jamescracknell/">**James
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Cracknell**
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> <a href="http:/www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/columnists
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/tanni-grey-thompson/">**Tanni Grey-Thompson**
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> <a href="http:/www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/sailing/ben-
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ainslie/">**Ben Ainslie**
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* [**Cultural Olympiad**][46]
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* [**Olympics Business**][47]
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### [Daily London 2012 Olympics countdown][41]
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[LONDON 2012 Sport Guides »][48]
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### [Olympics sport-by-sport guide][21]
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* [Archery][49] | [Athletics][50] | [Badminton][51]
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* [Basketball][52] | [Boxing][53] | [Canoe Sprint][54]
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* [Canoe Slalom][55] | [BMX Cycling][56] | [Mountain Bike][57]
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* [Road Cycling][58] | [Track Cycling][59] | [Diving][60]
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* [Equestrianism][61] | [Fencing][62] | [Football][63]
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* [Rhythmic Gymnastics][64] | [Artistic][65] | [Trampoline][66]
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* [Handball][67] | [Hockey][68] | [Judo][69]
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* [Modern Pentathlon][70] | [Rowing][71] | [Sailing][72] | [Shooting][73]
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* [Synchronised Swimming][74] | [Swimming][75]
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* [Table Tennis][76] | [Taekwondo][77] | [Tennis][78]
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* [Triathlon][79] | [Indoor Volleyball][80] | [Beach Volleyball][81]
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* [Water Polo][82] | [Weightlifting][83] | [Wrestling][84]
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### [On track: all you need for 2010 season][18]
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* **Events: **[Commonwealth Games][85]** | **[European Championships][86]**
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| **[World Race Walking Cup][87]** | **[World Junior Championships][88] |
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[World Marathon Majors][89]
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* **Event series**: [Diamond League][90] | [BUPA Great Run][91] | [McCain
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City Challenge][92] | [Young Athletes League][93]
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* **Federations:** [IAAF][94] | [European Athletics][95] | [USA Track &
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Field][96]
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* **Domestic:** [UK Athletics][95] | [England Athletics][97] | [Scottish
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Athletics][98] | [Welsh Athletics][99] | [English Schools AA][100] |
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[Athletics N Ireland][101]
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* **Selected clubs:** [Birchfield Harriers][102] | [Sale Harriers][103] |
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[Enfield & Haringey][104] | [Blackheath & Bromley Harriers][105]
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* **Other media:** [Runners World][106] | [Athletics Weekly][107] |
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[Spikesmag][108]
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* **Blogs: **[Track Xtraz][109]** | **[Preracejitters][110]** |
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**[Runblogrun][111]** |** [Talkathletics][112] | [Track and Field
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superblog][113]
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* **Other: **[All-Athletics.com][114]** | **[Letsrun.com][115]** | **[Power
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of 10][116]** | **[RunBritain][117]
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