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While ‘Bekele's cat’ is away the others can play in Brussels

2 September 2008 at 05:10 - 0 comments - link

Monte-Carlo - When in Beijing last month Kenenisa Bekele became the sixth man in history to complete a 5000m and 10,000m Olympic gold medal double, in the process retaining his 10,000m title, there was no longer any doubting the preeminence of the 26-year-old Ethiopian maestro in the recent history of the longest Olympic track distances.

The reigning three-time World 10,000m champion and the World 5000m and 10,000m record holder, Bekele is the big cat in the house of track distance running and all others who currently inhabit his domain seem by comparison like scurrying, frightened mice in his presence.

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Source: IAAF


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