African running
Haile Gebrselassie: 2nd fastest time ever
2008-01-20: The Standard Chartered Marathon in Dubai offered the richest payday in the history of the sport – $250,000 for the win and a bonus of…
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Marathon World Record – 2:04.26 to Haile Gebrselassie!
2007-09-30: If there was any doubt remaining, Haile Gebrselassie confirmed that he is indeed the greatest current distance runner, probably the greatest in history, by breaking…
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Athletics news and reports – Brussels preview
2007-09-14: Well, it’s been a quiet period for athletics, since our almost daily analysis of the IAAF World Champs in Osaka. Last week saw the Zurich…
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African dominance in sprinting?
2007-09-05: Here at The Science of Sport, we don’t shy away from controversial topics (within reason!) and are always on the lookout for interesting, substantiated, and…
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The Ethiopian running dynasty
2007-06-30: About a month ago, we did a post questioning whether we were about to witness the of long distance running dominance. The jury is still…
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The end of the Ethiopian era?
2007-06-03: Apologies for the delay between posts, it’s been a crazily busy time for both of us. But we’re back, and feature two interesting athletic/running related…
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African running dominance
2007-05-22: We recently (11 May, Good read, !) featured some stats on the African runners in the City Marathons, and Jonathan showed how in the Boston…
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Are the Africans really faster than the Americans?
2007-05-11: In the 1980’s the first Kenyan runners began entering (and winning) marathons in the USA. The first to win a major city marathon was Jon…
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