Ethiopian runners at the Olympics
on Marian Dodds (Ethiopia), 04/Aug/2012 00:09, 34 days ago
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The crowd on the line taxi on June 1st, 2012 was totally silent, listening with rapt attention to an Amharic radio broadcast which even I could tell was a seriously crucial race. When the passengers erupted in cheers I asked the guy squished in the front seat beside me: “Which race is this?” “Tirunesh has [...]