APA
March 9, 2010
Addis Ababa ( Ethiopia) A team of Ethiopian athletics will leave on Wednesday morning for Qatar, Doha to take part in the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) World Indoor Championships from 12-14 March.
The Ethiopian athletics team is traveling to Qatar despite a diplomatic row that erupted in 2008 between the two countries.
Ethiopia [...]
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Ethiopia to take part in IAAF’s championship despite diplomatic row with Qatar
March 9, 2010 – 10:55 am
First Ethiopian runner to test positive for EPO
March 8, 2010 – 3:43 pm
Universal Sports
March 7, 2010
Elshadai Negash and Tadele Assefa
Ethiopia’s Olympian marathon runner Shetaye Gemechu has received a two-year ban from the Ethiopian Athletics Federation (EAF) after testing positive for the banned substance EPO.
Gemechu, who competed for Ethiopia in the 2000 Sydney and 2004 Olympic Marathons, is a regular in the U.S. road running circuit winning the [...]
Vikings Sink Pirate Skiff Off Somali Coast, NATO News Issues Overblown Report
March 5, 2010 – 4:21 pm
Newsblaze, US-based independent news website
March 3, 2010
Alan Gray
ECOTERRA reports that a NATO destroyer sank a “pirate mothership” in the Indian Ocean, off the Somali coast on Sunday. The official NATO statement said the Danish warship HDMS Absalon disrupted a pirate operation, by “scuttling” a pirate skiff, one of the boats Somali gangs use to transport [...]
Tariku and Desta Tesfaye’s Ethiopian Kids’ Tennis Project
March 3, 2010 – 8:21 am
Suite 101, Independent Canadian website
March 2, 2010
Greca Durant
Tennis has been the saving grace of some disadvantaged children in Addis Ababa, thanks to Coaches Tariku and Desta Tesfaye, who created the Ethiopian Kids’ Tennis Project
In Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia, ground tennis is one of the favourite pastimes of city residents. They [...]
Tergat says Kenya must find a way to stop Ethiopia
February 21, 2010 – 10:29 pm
Reuters
March 21, 2010
NAIROBI – Kenyan coaches must improve training and motivation if the country is to end Ethiopia’s dominance of the world cross country championships, five-times world champion Paul Tergat said on Saturday.
“We let the Ethiopians inside our tent and they took control,” Tergat told Reuters at the Kenyan national cross country championships.
“It will need [...]
No snow but Ethiopia’s ski hope is on a roll
February 7, 2010 – 7:44 pm
Reuters
February 7, 2010
Barry Malone
ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopia’s only Olympic skier wheels down a suburban Addis Ababa street on his roller skis, expertly weaving around six donkeys and drawing stares from locals more used to watching runners train.
Robel Teklemariam went to the Turin Winter Olympics four years ago and came 84th out of about 100 [...]
Gebrselassie fights off back pain and late race challenge to collect third Dubai victory
January 25, 2010 – 1:15 pm
IAAF
January 22, 2010
Pat Butcher
Dubai, UAE – Haile Gebrselassie won the Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon for the third time in a row this morning, clocking 2:06:09, and again raking in $250,000, the richest prize in marathoning.
But a back problem, which required intensive pre-race physiotherapy, ruled out a World record attempt from the start, and when [...]
DOUBLE SUCCESS FOR ETHIOPIA
January 3, 2010 – 8:13 pm
Sportinglife.com, UK
January 2, 2010
Ethiopian pair Feyisa Lelisa and Atsede Bayisa claimed respective men’s and women’s titles at the Xiamen International Marathon on Saturday.
Teenager Lelisa, in only his second marathon, lowered his personal best to two hours eight minutes 47 seconds, while reigning Paris champion Bayisa clocked 2hr 28 min 53 sec.
Bai Xue, China’s pre-race favourite [...]
Supremacy battle between Kenya, Ethiopia in running continues
January 1, 2010 – 10:06 pm
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-12/31/content_12733125.htm
December 30, 2009
NAIROBI — The long-standing supremacy battle between East Africa’s athletics powerhouses, Kenya and Ethiopia played out in 2009 over mid, long distance and road running surfaces with mixed results for both nations.
CROSS COUNTRY
Having produced the first two five-time winners of the senior 12km men long race at [...]
Fearing for their lives, six Eritrean athletes absconded while in Scotland
January 1, 2010 – 9:43 pm
The Scotsman
Fearing for their lives, six Eritrean athletes absconded while in Scotland – and found a new home with a Glasgow running club
31 December 2009
Shân Ross
SMILING and signing autographs in the hospitality tent in Holyrood Park after the World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh last year, the team of athletes representing Eritrea gave no indication [...]
